En Chine, à Hu Xian 1974

Gerard Fromanger’s ‘En Chine, à Hu Xian’ presents a crowd scene rendered with blocks of vibrant color, a kind of screen print with people. Look how each figure is outlined, then filled in with a single, saturated hue, red, blue, green. The paint application is smooth, almost flat, denying any sense of brushwork. It's as if Fromanger is interested in the idea of the crowd as a single entity, a collective force, not individuals. These bold colors make the people pop against the neutral backdrop. They’re not realistic, but they’re emotionally resonant. The red figure near the center demands attention, it pulses with energy. This is about how we experience a place, a society, not just what we see. It’s a real trip, like Warhol meets China. It's a conversation across cultures, a playful riff on how we perceive each other, and a reminder that art is always a conversation, an exchange of ideas that never really ends.