Gaukey

Fragments of Gauguin, Las Meninas, and Renoir's oarsmen share the same pictorial surface with a pop culture icon like Mickey Mouse, where the distinction between the canonical and the disposable has practically disappeared.

GAUKEY gathers images that we have looked at all our lives—so familiar they have become almost invisible—and forces them back into collision.

It is not a tribute.

It is painting slowing down the gaze right at the point where visual consumption had already considered the image exhausted.

Oil on canvas

95 x 65 cm 

2025