GABRIEL - Trump with Balloon, NY — Limited Edition, signed (1/100)

GABRIEL / BANPSY - Trump with Balloon, NY  🎈

Limited Edition (1/100)

29.7 × 42 cm (A3)

GABRIEL | NO KINGS - March 28

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🇺🇸 Description: In collaboration with BANPSY [FRED], this work marks the first stencil piece by the young artist GABRIEL, aged 14. It features a contemporary media figure whose silhouette emerges accidentally during the stencil process or spray gesture, revealing a recognizable form without having been initially premeditated.

Deprived of a face, the figure stands within a neutral space, suspended in a frozen moment. His arm, extended toward a heart in the colors of the American flag—both an affective motif and a wounded symbol—creates a perceptible tension. The gesture is fixed within an ambiguous space-time: at once an attempt to reach toward the balloon and a rejection through an authoritative motion, suggesting an unstable in-between of desire and power.

Through this tension, the work questions the relationships between emotional projection onto symbols, the construction of public figures, and mechanisms of power. The heart, marked by drips, appears as a fragile symbol, while the figure itself dissolves within its status as both icon and authority.

The use of stencil, spray, and paint situates the work within an economy of means characteristic of contemporary practices rooted in urban space, while leaving room for accident, emergence, and unpredictability as constitutive elements of the composition, echoing the dynamics of appearance, rupture, and instability inherent to the political sphere.

Far from any explicit narrative, the image functions as a suspended device: it does not depict an event, but rather a moment of indecision in which the gesture, still open, leaves the responsibility of interpretation to the viewer.

🇮🇹 Descrizione: In collaborazione con BANPSY [FRED], quest’opera segna il primo lavoro a stencil del giovane artista GABRIEL, di 14 anni. Mette in scena una figura mediatica contemporanea la cui silhouette emerge in modo accidentale durante l’esecuzione dello stencil o del gesto dello spray, rivelando una forma riconoscibile senza essere stata inizialmente premeditata.

Priva di volto, la figura emerge in uno spazio neutro e in un istante sospeso. Il suo braccio teso verso un cuore nei colori della bandiera americana—al tempo stesso motivo affettivo e simbolo ferito—instaura una tensione percepibile. Il gesto è fissato in uno spazio-tempo ambiguo: insieme tentativo di avvicinamento verso il palloncino e rifiuto attraverso un movimento autoritario, suggerendo un’instabilità tra desiderio e potere.

Attraverso questa tensione, l’opera interroga le relazioni tra la proiezione emotiva sui simboli, la costruzione delle figure pubbliche e i meccanismi di potere. Il cuore, segnato da colature, appare come un simbolo fragile, mentre la figura stessa si dissolve nel suo statuto di icona e di potere.

L’uso dello stencil, dello spray e della pittura inscrive l’opera in un’economia di mezzi propria delle pratiche contemporanee legate allo spazio urbano, lasciando al contempo spazio all’apparizione e all’imprevisto come elementi costitutivi della composizione, richiamando le dinamiche di apparizione, rottura e instabilità proprie del campo politico.

Lontana da ogni narrazione esplicita, l’immagine agisce come un dispositivo di sospensione: non rappresenta un evento, ma un momento di indecisione in cui il gesto, ancora aperto, lascia allo spettatore la responsabilità dell’interpretazione.

🇫🇷 Description : En collaboration avec BANPSY [FRED], cette œuvre marque le premier travail au pochoir (stencil) du jeune artiste GABRIEL âgé de 14 ans. Elle met en scène une figure médiatique contemporaine, dont la silhouette apparaît de manière accidentelle lors de l’exercice du pochoir ou du geste de spray, révélant une forme reconnaissable sans avoir été initialement préméditée.

Privé de visage, le personnage se tient dans un espace neutre, suspendu dans un instant figé. Son bras tendu vers un cœur aux couleurs du drapeau américain, devenu à la fois motif affectif et symbole blessé, installe une tension perceptible. Le geste est figé dans un espace-temps ambigu : à la fois tentative de rapprochement vers le ballon et rejet par un geste autoritaire, suggérant un entre-deux instable entre désir et pouvoir.

Par cette mise en tension, l’œuvre interroge les relations entre projection émotionnelle sur les symboles, construction des figures publiques et mécanismes de pouvoir. Le cœur, marqué par des coulures, apparaît comme un symbole fragilisé, tandis que la figure elle-même se dissout dans son statut d’icône et de pouvoir.

L’usage du pochoir, du spray et de la peinture inscrit l’œuvre dans une économie de moyens propre aux pratiques contemporaines issues de l’espace urbain tout en laissant place à l’accident, à l’apparition et à l’imprévu comme éléments constitutifs de la composition, faisant écho aux logiques d’apparition, de rupture et d’instabilité propres au champ politique.

Loin de toute narration explicite, l’image agit comme un dispositif de suspension : elle ne montre pas un événement mais un moment d’indécision où le geste, encore ouvert, laisse au spectateur la responsabilité de son interprétation.

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