390,00 €
70 in stock
Fine Art Print, Limited Edition of 70, delivered with a certificate of authenticity
Pigment print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper, 310 gsm
Paper size: 70 × 55 cm (27.6 × 21.7 in) | Image size: 50 × 35 cm (19.7 × 13.8 in)
“Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child...” Ecclesiastes 10:16
Paper King explores the tension between appearance and responsibility, revealing the quiet tragedy of power worn without inner maturity.
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70 in stock
Paper King
Worn like an accessory, a paper crown.
The eyes are closed, too tightly. The brows are contracted, the mouth tense. A childlike gesture: closing one’s eyes in order to refuse to see.
The arms remain inert. The tight framing reinforces the idea of immaturity, of inner confinement, of refusal of reality.
To be king… but in a space too small to reign.
This young man wears a plain white cotton T-shirt. Behind this modern banality, a biblical quotation, an ancient thought that has crossed the centuries:
“Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning.” Ecclesiastes 10:16
“Vanity, all is vanity…” Ecclesiastes tells us again.
It is not an aggressive denunciation, but a lucid, almost melancholic observation of the human condition, fragile, provisional, sometimes almost absurd.
Paper King is not a king.
It is a figure of a familiar temptation: to display the signs of power while avoiding the weight of responsibility.
It is the desire to reign before having learned to see.
In this sense, Paper King reveals the shadow of inner sovereignty: the temptation to wear the signs of power without possessing the inner authority that gives it meaning.
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