La liberté guidant le peuple
45.9047° N, 6.6984° E
2015
"La Liberté guidant le peuple"
Spray can
2015
4 m x 10 m.
Kill Art Factory Festival, La Pallud
To restore the spirit of Liberty Leading the People, Kan focuses on the emblematic duo of the woman and the street kid, who will soon be associated with the "Gavroche" from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. However, he chooses a close-up that reframes the figures and elevates them to portraits.
Completing the approach of Delacroix, familiar with the off-screen, he zooms in on the main figures and enlarges them until they become monumental. By doing so, he pixelates the image, in accordance with his neo-pointillist practice. His work, created with spray cans, is indeed a juxtaposition of colored dots with a perfectly calibrated diameter whose frame, with hindsight, forms a recognizable image.
Halfway between Seurat's line and digital processing, Kan's work is scrupulously measured. The palette here is reduced to the three symbolic colors of the French flag, blue, white, red, with the addition of black, synthesizing Delacroix's chromatic range.
Cyrille Gouyette
"La Liberté guidant le peuple"
Spray can
2015
4 m x 10 m.
Kill Art Factory Festival, La Pallud
To restore the spirit of Liberty Leading the People, Kan focuses on the emblematic duo of the woman and the street kid, who will soon be associated with the "Gavroche" from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. However, he chooses a close-up that reframes the figures and elevates them to portraits.
Completing the approach of Delacroix, familiar with the off-screen, he zooms in on the main figures and enlarges them until they become monumental. By doing so, he pixelates the image, in accordance with his neo-pointillist practice. His work, created with spray cans, is indeed a juxtaposition of colored dots with a perfectly calibrated diameter whose frame, with hindsight, forms a recognizable image.
Halfway between Seurat's line and digital processing, Kan's work is scrupulously measured. The palette here is reduced to the three symbolic colors of the French flag, blue, white, red, with the addition of black, synthesizing Delacroix's chromatic range.
Cyrille Gouyette
