Birthday Boy - 2024
Acrylic, pumice and charcoal on canvas
Pedestal from cardboard and plastic
30 x 40 cm
The heart of the exhibition, also named Birthday Boy. Portraying the anti climatic celebration of ending the fun part - university and childhood.
In the right side of the painting a clown with a comically long candlesque birthday hat looking at the viewer and at the object in front. Hes colourless and sitting in an uncomfortable manner yet still smiling. On the left is a red candle that could also function as a comically cartoonish dynamite stick or a birthday cake.This painting is about anticipation, having fun and pictorial balance.
The pedestal is readymade cardboard and plastic cylinder from an industrial printer. It used to be inside the cardboard on which I painted 'Untitled (Spider)'.The pedestal is a post-vandalist cheap version of the classic greek column.