Gevrey Chambertin 2013, Pont des Arts, Miquel Barceló, Bourgogne

Still life has fascinated Miquel Barceló throughout his career, and it is a genre he has repeatedly visited. By the irrepressibly creative artist, this still life is no demure nicety, but a prismatic surface saturated by dense texture, paint and wood pulp, bursting with ingenuity and vitality in centrifugal rhythms. The flora depicted are life in its original, unadorned yet most adorable form, whereas the composition’s earthy and earthly character is a contemporary allegory to nature and morality.