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Game Art: Rémi Gallard's "Sonic The Hedgehog" (2014)

Matteo

Matteo

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More than a prankster: Born in Montpellier, France in 1975, Rémi Gallard is a modern day Alfred Jarry, a pataphysical performer challenging the arid logic of the machine with playful, always outrageous, at times sinister, public interventions. The result of elaborate planning and staging activities - often involving a group of accomplices and hidden cameras, a la Improv Everywhere - Gallard's pranks revolve around popular culture icons, from Rocky Balboa to video game characters, e.g. Pac-Man, Super Mario and the likes. A self defined humorist, Gallard is one of the most popular YouTube comedians. In his latest gesture, Gallard appropriates and subverts the image (and body) of Sega's popular icon, Sonic The Hedgehog, which also starred in a 2013 performance involving elevators. His previous parodies, e.g. the Super Mario Kart videos, have scored millions of hits. Very dada. Gallard stars in his first full-length feature film titled N'importe qui (I don't care). Directed by Raphaël Frydman, the movie will be released in March 2014 in France.LINK

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