A Contre-Courant (hommage à Buster Keaton) - © Galerie des Galeries
A Contre-Courant (hommage à Buster Keaton), 2008

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© Philippe Ramette, ADAGP, Paris 2013, Courtesy Galerie Xippas
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The “A contre-courant (hommage à Buster Keaton)”, 2008 character finds himself in an awkward position of both imbalance and resistance to the stream. The humorous element here tends to overshadow the preternatural strength needed to defy laws generally, that of gravity in particular.

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