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6 Surreal Paintings by Joan Cornellà, Parody or Reality?

  • Dewey Byrne

Dewey Byrne

•5 min read

Review:

At first, Cornellà's work may appear light-hearted and playful - his figures all share a generic blank smile and the color palette is bright and cheerful, reminiscent of 1950's advertising or airline safety pamphlets. However, upon closer inspection, the overwhelming morbidity and unnerving nature of the work is revealed. Black comedy is about satirizing subjects that are traditionally prohibited - things that are seen as too sacred or off limits. Cornellà pokes fun at such topics and cuts to their core with gags and minimal visual clues, illustrating scenes of cannibalism, infanticide, deification, murder, suicide and amputation (used most frequently). While some people are offended by his work, many others can relate to it, laughing and feeling bad for laughing at the same time.

Joan Cornellà's gruesome comic tales tackle a range of complex and taboo themes which are often avoided. Some of his subject matters include suicide, self-mutilation, racism, abortion, murder, homophobia, disability, deformity, and sadistic or oblivious violence. Even if all of this doesn’t quite sound funny, Cornellà masterfully manages to create hilarious narratives which often leave the viewer in awe. His comics are populated almost exclusively by smiling psychopaths who invariably turn even the most mundane situation into an amusing and cringe-inducing farce.

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