Original artwork description:

Icon under Erosion

In "Augusta Graffiti Yellow-Black," Jerome Cholet presents us with a paradox: a face meant to be flawless—immortalized by the modeling world—recast in raw, urban decay. Measuring 30x40 cm, this collage composed of printed photography, stencil work, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin captures the tension between constructed beauty and cultural erosion.

Based on the visage of Austrian model Augusta Alexander, Cholet distorts the iconography of contemporary masculinity through the aesthetics of graffiti, destruction, and silence. With bold streaks of yellow and violent overlays of black, the piece evokes the visual vocabulary of Basquiat's chaos, Banksy's anonymity, and the icon-shattering force of Barbara Kruger—yet here, the subject is not a cultural product being critiqued, but a myth being dismantled.

The epoxy resin coating, glassy and industrial, turns the portrait into an object, while simultaneously entombing it—part relic, part advertisement, part protest. Is this Augusta as ideal, or Augusta as target? The ambiguity is deliberate. Cholet’s hand shows restraint and aggression at once, echoing the contemporary dialectic between visibility and vulnerability.

In an art world obsessed with surface and spectacle, “Augusta Graffiti Yellow-Black” asks a critical question: When the beautiful face is vandalized, what remains—an image or a truth?

IMPORTANT: None of my artwork is perfect, they are organic, there are drops of paint, tears in the paper, waves, glue residues. They are original!

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Materials used:

Photos, Paper, Spraypaint, Paint, Acrylic Paint

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