by Duhamel Xolot

Artwork Description

Calambur No.1

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Digital artwork. Calambur No.1 (Oro parece, plata no es) from «Ludexia series». This series appropriates some of the so-called rhetorical figures, (linguistic resources for creative use) with the intention of translating, amplifying, or reinterpreting the lexical context to the visual plane, partially walking through the playful paths of the «visual pun» or «calembour visuel». Calambur is a phonetic resource, based on homonymy, paronymy or polysemy. It consists of modifying the meaning of a word or phrase by grouping its syllables in different ways. It is frequently used for the construction of riddles, such as the classic Hispanic children's riddle “Oro parece plata no es, quien no lo sepa bien bobo es”. Which in this case, the answer comes by joining the 3rd and the 4th words into one: “plátano”, another term for banana. Intervening the F in the Facebook logo turns out more than ideal to parody both the social network and the recent controversy that arose from the artwork “Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan, who placed a ripe banana taped to the wall at Art Basel Miami in 2019. This piece also “quotes” the iconic banana that Andy Warhol created for The Velvet Underground’s debut album.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Pop Art