EMESS
COMIC SANS TETES
Like Roy Lichtenstein, Emess fully utilises the creative potential of comic culture in the “Comic sans têtes” series of works – except that the inspiration for these paintings is based on French craft sheets from the 1930s – where you could add the heads yourself to simulate simple mechanical movements.
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The viewer is therefore invited to complete these paintings in his imagination and is actively involved in the creation process himself in order to see the pictures as he wants them. The fact is that nothing is missing from the picture content and the images work despite their apparent headlessness.
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Emess combines fast, graphic stencil cuts with rough colour field painting and a pop dot grid – works that are irritating because they come across as both historicising and totally fresh and contemporary at the same time.
