Many watercolours, one protagonist: Fat Boy. It is he, a chubby and funny figure, who guides us on a hilarious and irreverent tour through the works of the great masters, from Raphael to Maurizio Cattelan, from Mantegna to Picasso.
With a mix of bright colours, powerful symbols and hinted eroticism, this character shows us art from a new perspective, made of irony and amazement.
Inspired by the ceramics of the pre-Columbian civilisation of the Mimbres, Fat Boy knows no temporal or stylistic boundaries: he tries his hand at uprights, lies in perfect perspective next to the works of Mantegna and imitates the contorted poses of Picasso’s girls. Nothing escapes his curious and somewhat irreverent gaze, not even Jannis Kounellis’s black rose or Raphael’s Three Graces.
Beware though, it is not just a game: through Fat Boy, Radl builds a visual narrative that spans centuries of art, merging tradition and contemporaneity in a single creative flow. In each watercolour there is a story, a detail that winks at the great masterpieces but at the same time reinvents them.
