Petites Luxures (1980) — The Cherry On The Cake

The cherry on the cake
Ink and watercolor on paper.
32 x 24 cm

Provenance:
Artist's studio
Private collection, southern France

Petites Luxures: the art of suggestion 

Petites Luxures, was born on Instagram in 2014 and now boasts over 1.3million followers. Behind this now global phenomenon is a man, a former graphicdesigner and advertising executive, Simon Frankart.
The origins of this projectare reminiscent of famous figures; bedridden with the flu, Simon draws. Butparalyzed by the slowness of his body, he doesn't have the strength to finishhis sketches. In this constrained game of full and empty, his mind, imprisonedin an immobile body, awakens and finally finds its line, in impertinence andsuggestion.Likes and subscriptions quickly follow one another on the social networkwith over a billion users. The stakes are high. Yet the popularity of theseworks has less to do with their erotic nature than with the certain slownessthat gave rise to them in the first place. In the midst of the barrage ofimages we like to impose on ourselves on Instagram, an enigmatic work of artholds our thumb. In this suspended moment, we must take care to decipher it, tosavor it and to assimilate a skilful play on semantics. Eroticism, usuallyfrontal and easy to find on the net, is swept away by the impertinence of theseempty spaces, which you have to take the time to guess.
The daily publicationsof Petites Luxures become a moment of pleasure, an intimate rendezvous sharedwith thousands of people around the world.The magic of the Internet and social networks is also the magic ofsharing, of 2.0. So once again, Petites Luxures takes advantage of the times,of its participative digital society, and asks its readers in Paris, New York,São Paulo, Moscow and Berlin to recount their most beautiful intimate memories.
In 2019, he published fifty of the one thousand, five hundred stories hereceived, illustrating each of these burning moments with a delicate, libertinedrawing that never lapses into vulgarity.
June 2019 sees thestart of a new collaboration between Petites Luxures and Galerie AlexisPentcheff, with an exhibition of erotic works entitled “Qriosa”. Since then,the gallery has regularly presented the artist's original works in itsMarseille space. 

Discover more works by this artist on the gallery's website: https://www.galeriepentcheff.fr/fr/peintre-petites-luxures#Oeuvres