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Oyster n°3; 56.5 cm x 77.5 cm, oil on beige fabric, 2011 |
Oyster n°2; 58 cm x 70 cm, oil on beige fabric, 2011 |
Oyster n°4; 43 x 53 cm, oil on beige fabric, 2011 |
Oyster n°1; 46 cm x 55 cm, oil on beige fabric, 2011 |
Almost all shell-bearing molluscs can secrete pearls, yet most are not very valuable; |
An oyster as the leap of faith- or doubt - as he tells us that salt and freshwater fish with fins and scales may be eaten, but water creatures |
Enormous and deified oyster; 164 cm x 191 cm, oil and gold on canvas, 2011 |
My brother, uncle Maurice and his goat herd in the seventies; oil on brown zebra-print fabric, |
An orange scapegoat that could - maybe - represent René Girard's mimetic double bind; |
A goyster: a goat with the body of an oyster / une chuître: une chèvre avec un corps d’huître |
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Three African goats in a tree; 52.5 cm x 33 cm, oil and gold on canvas, 2011 |
Three African goats trying to reach high leaves; 53.5 cm x 33 cm, oil on canvas, 2011 |
“A goat bleating its head off before being sacrificed”/ “An action is very often misunderstood by those outside the faith”; |
A herd of goats with a funny looking black one and a nicely painted pink one; |
A goat with the statement “It deals with guilt, contentment, the loss of a loved one, lack of sex and bad luck”; |
A ram’s head with the statement “It’s about what you can afford in terms of fear”; 90 x 125cm, oil on black fabric, 2011 |
“Even little people have big feelings” (Fassbinder); 68 x 82 cm, oil on wax fabric, 2011 |
Marx Ernst (seen from the back), checking the hanging of his paintings at l’Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris in the seventies (after a photo by A. Morain); |
A flower bunch from a master painting, a monkey-looking man and me after a street fight; 90.5 x 150 cm, oil on zebra-print fabric, 2011 |
Dazzling bunch of flowers on disturbing background; |
Wonderful you / a stunning bunch of flowers in a vase; |
![]() Mice doped with jellyfish genes to visualise the cell system: science is robbing us of poetry; 57.5 cm x 54 cm, oil on flower-print fabric, 2011 |
The Macabre Dance after Hans Holbein the Younger as fashion shoot , |
Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkeys - a critically endangered species from the tropical forests of Vietnam - looking at you; |
Jack Johnson vs. James J.Jeffries, the fight of the century, 4thJuly 1910, Reno, Nevada, United States; |
By the time you read this, it will probably be established if she did or did not tell the truth about what happened in that hotel room; |
Muhamad Ali vs. Sonny Liston / “The crowd did not dream, when they laid down their money, that they would see a total eclipse of Sonny” |
Rather badly painted portrait - but somehow could be good too - of the great world |
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Cute cat with the statement “If you insult my religion, I’ll kill you”; |
Cute dog with the statement “You expressionist fucker”; |
Cats and dogs dancing on Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”; |