Patrick Guns Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1962 -

Playing on the double meaning and the meaning of words and images, Patrick Guns' work is a mirror of the contemporary world, of its drifts and its questions, be they political, economic, social or religious. . The artist uses a multiform plastic language, often colorful, corrosive, cynical but free from political ideologies and proposes with a false lightness, a free and attentive look at the subjects of society.

Through what he calls "poetic images", he invites us to reflect with humor and poetry on the universality of the human condition. The most iconic series of his work are My Last Meals *** (2007-in progress), photographs of star chefs from around the world re-cooking the last meals of US death row inmates, thus restoring the humanity of the executed ; No to Contemporary Art (2005-2014), images of fictitious world events against contemporary art; or The Fading of Colors (2002-2003), large blue Bic drawings featuring the logo of the little schoolboy manhandled.

The letters VITRIOL and its inverted mirror in the lowlands of the Parc de Bruxelles are the remains of the exhibition "The Work in Green: 13 Works for the Parc de Bruxelles" in which he participated in 1991.