Jace Solo Show

In his latest series, JACE presents his Electrocution School Cards.  Inspired from illustrations dating from 1971 JACE found reinterprets them in an unprecedented way. The material he tampers with illustrates the perfect 70s way of life. Kids are served with the image a permed hair mother who invariably smiles beside the father figure. Here are the roles children will one day have to hold to serve the nation.

But then when one looks closely, the obvious becomes cruel, provocative and unbearable. While JACE keeps the innocence of these 70s illustrations he has added elements and details that reflect what the world has become. As intense as provocative, the works depict drug dealers selling weed to perfect housewifes, little girls slipping their hands into a priest’s cassock... The simplicity of the  art makes these social trends a lot harder to bear. JACE offers here cruel look at the flaws of our contemporary society. As a fair warning, the artist gives us an electroshock. 

With a complete series of 50 artworks never shown before, street artist JACE places himslef on the werge of becoming also a low brow or Pop Surrealist artist. As in Lowbrow art, mixing naïve comic codes with our society’s reality, one will find a sweet mix of humor and terror. JACE often makes sarcastic or even caustic drawings in which he draws up a lucid portrait of the French society.

For this show : Catalogue published in limited edition.