Jules
de Balincourt
Ambitious New Plans
2005, Oil on Board
102 x 152cm |
Force-fed
on TV and an all-American mind-junk diet, Jules de Balincourt’s
paintings are crafted with democratic gusto. Painted on board,
de Balincourt’s faux-naif style paintings are underscored
with grainy DIY texture. His folk-art cum genius approach
to painting offers a free-for-all licence for his witty and
apocalyptic social commentary. In Ambitious New Plans,
de Balincourt comically pictures a parliament of evil: starched
shirts and pink faces, the order of world business is darkly
portrayed as akin to a teetotallers’ craps table. Caught
somewhere between a 1960s cold war film still and anti-Bush
propaganda, de Balincourt swaps the blazing crimson of Communism
for down-home barn-door red. |