Anton Laborde France, b. 1999
Adri dans son Jardin (Adri in his garden), 2025
Mixed media of natural and handmade stained wood collage on wood panel and gold leaf, marquetry hybrid.
128 x 93 cm
GRAL017
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In Anton Laborde’s works, craftsmanship blends with contemporary topics. This is the case here with Adri in the Garden, inspired by a personal acquaintance of the artist. The piece is...
In Anton Laborde’s works, craftsmanship blends with contemporary topics. This is the case here with Adri in the Garden, inspired by a personal acquaintance of the artist. The piece is part of Laborde’s “jungles” series, where the lush, untamed nature becomes the stage for introspection or a form of transcendence.
The figure, a contemporary man in posture and underwear, appears absorbed in a meditative or ecstatic state. Isolated within a dense vegetation, his solitude is not threatening; on the contrary, it seems protective, almost uterine.
Adri cultivates his vegetable garden with the goal of self-sufficiency and ecological commitment to biodiversity. He spends most of his time in the garden, seeking harmony with nature. However, a subtle detail disturbs this image: the blue-white-red trim of his underwear alludes to his affiliation with the ideas of a French far-right party.
By depicting him this way, Anton Laborde offers a profoundly humanist perspective. At the crossroads of the sensitive and the political, his work opens a space for reflection on human contradictions and grants his subjects a universal significance.
The figure, a contemporary man in posture and underwear, appears absorbed in a meditative or ecstatic state. Isolated within a dense vegetation, his solitude is not threatening; on the contrary, it seems protective, almost uterine.
Adri cultivates his vegetable garden with the goal of self-sufficiency and ecological commitment to biodiversity. He spends most of his time in the garden, seeking harmony with nature. However, a subtle detail disturbs this image: the blue-white-red trim of his underwear alludes to his affiliation with the ideas of a French far-right party.
By depicting him this way, Anton Laborde offers a profoundly humanist perspective. At the crossroads of the sensitive and the political, his work opens a space for reflection on human contradictions and grants his subjects a universal significance.