Details:

Rendered in acrylic, ballpoint pen, pencil, charcoal pencil, and marker, this work on paper pictures a fashionable young woman on a patio in a backless top and jeans—a smartphone in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Her urban status is confirmed by the large residential buildings and pollution-tinged sunset rising beyond.
Unframed

① Artwork:

Untitled

Rendered in acrylic, ballpoint pen, pencil, charcoal pencil, and marker, this work on paper pictures a fashionable young woman on a patio in a backless top and jeans—a smartphone in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Her urban status is confirmed by the large residential buildings and pollution-tinged sunset rising beyond.

David Rappeneau’s visions of alterity remind us that our appetites have remained insatiable, only further whetted by our entrée into the digital. Rappeneau’s figures occupy a ground that is perpetually spinning. His scenes, thick with activity, depict characters in the throws of ecstasy, climax always on the verge of arrival.

Specs:

11.61 inches
16.44 inches

③ Artist:

David Rappeneau

David Rappeneau’s visions of alterity, rendered in acrylic, ballpoint pen, pencil, and charcoal, remind us that our appetites have remained insatiable, whetted by our entrée into the digital. Rappeneau’s figures occupy a ground that is perpetually spinning. His scenes, thick with activity, depict characters in the throws of ecstasy, climax always on the verge of arrival.

David Rappeneau was born in France, where he lives.

He has mounted solo exhibitions at Queer Thoughts in New York City, NY (2022); Gladstone Gallery in Brussels, Belgium (2021), and elsewhere.

Rappeneau has also participated in group shows like Liquid Life at Super Dakota in Brussels, Belgium (​​2022); You must either watch a Fire or burn up in It at FRAC Corsica in Corte, France (​​2022); Lust for Life at Edward Ressle in Shanghai, China (2021); Scratching the surface at Galerie Derouillon in Paris, France (2021); Devastation at Queer Thoughts in New York City, NY (2021); what fruit it bears at Peres Projects in Berlin, Germany (2020); and Drawing 2020 at Gladstone Gallery in New York City, NY (2020) among others.

David Rappeneau:
Untitled, 2021
Acrylic, ballpoint pen, pencil, charcoal pencil, acrylic marker on paper
16.4 × 11.6 inches /