Joan Cornellà
Untitled
2018
Acrylic on canvas
60 × 60 cm
Unique
Location: Hong Kong, China
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927731872
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About the artwork
Rooted in an engaged art form, this painting with its effective, colorful visual language caricatures society. Through the presence of a woman meeting beauty standards taking a photo with a skinny young boy in a war-torn country, Joan Cornella highlights social disparities and disinterestedness in the face of conflict. He also denounces the use of social networks and the promotion of humanitarian causes for the sake of visibility. Like the rest of his work, Joan Cornellà uses an absurd and cruel scene to comment on human life, wielding satire and cynicism.
Expert opinion
This work, skilfully combining horror and the ridiculous, was used as the poster for the "Joan Cornellà Happy Endings" exhibition held in Bangkok at the end of 2018.
About the artist
Born in Barcelona in 1981, Joan Cornellà is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. With a degree in Arts, he is famous for his textless, disturbing, darkly humorous comic strips and sarcastic works of art. He treats all subjects of life and human nature without limits of propriety or reasonableness. His effective style, with its bright, cheerful color palette, features smiling characters in increasingly burlesque or appalling situations. Successful on social networks, her work is also present in the international art scene: after Shanghai, Bangkok, New York and London, Joan Cornellà has also exhibited at the Arts Factory gallery in Paris, and her pieces are sold by major auction houses such as Sotheby's.
“I think we all laugh at misery. We have to start from the idea that when we laugh, we're laughing at someone or something. With or without empathy, there's always an element of cruelty. Even so, I'm aware that if one of my cartoons happened in real life, I wouldn't laugh at all.”
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