Dany Danino

For Dany Danino, “the mushroom is a romantic and contemporary cloud, both soothing and unsettling”. Walking, wandering and daydreaming inspire the artist’s approach, who retains vivid memories of the storms of his childhood. This etching, presented as a triptych, forms part of a series of 7 to 8 mushrooms, a sort of variations on a single theme. The artist also links this series to his ‘Atomic Cloud’, developed at the Maison des Arts in Schaerbeek. The fear of war and destruction, which Dany Danino associates with his Israeli origins, hangs within the very misty forms of his mushroom. The indigo blue, both powerful and contemplative, is distributed across the three surfaces in varying densities. This creates an interplay of transparency. This colour seems dear to the artist, who is also accustomed to working with ballpoint pen, as in his ‘Gueules cassées’ series, faces bearing witness to the horrors of war.

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