AIR FORCE ONE BLACK MAMBA
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BLACK MAMBA
BLACK MAMBA
"It is an abstract artistic work, in its relief and its overallness. It is not part of a series. It comes from a reflection following the work of the artist Pierre Soulages, who died on October 25, 2022, who He used only black. Associated since the end of the 1940s with abstract art, he is particularly known for his use of reflections of the color black, which he calls “black-light” or “beyond black”.
The idea on these Sneakers was to work black with effects of light and color, without having to add color. Obtain color just by superimposing the thickness of blacks. With the desire to work on volume. This allows you to play with the imagination but also to recall the sewing of the Swoosh in black Python. The relief of the reptile containing different thicknesses. The texture makes it seem like there are shapes and words.”
Artwhos .
"Any word which designates a color is an abstraction on which we place conventional meanings - thus black would be sad, while elsewhere, in Japan for example, it is white which is the color of mourning. We must therefore simply look ."