Daniel Mangin

Not in the Snow

Open your mind series

France

2023

Oil on canvas

30x40 cm

Artist about this artwork The title relies on an ambiguity specific to French: the word "pas" designates both a footprint, so here it would mean "we walked in the snow," as in Tintin's "we walked on the Moon," but also a negative, which here would mean "it's not in the snow," as Magritte painted a picture of a pipe, which he titled "ceci n'est pas une pipe," to the delight of practitioners of General Semantics. Note that here, if it's snow, it's rather dirty, say bloody. But it could be "tutti frutti"-flavored popsicles, much consumed during this heatwave.