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María MagánContemporary Transparencies Trompe l'oeil. Still Life. Dual Inflated Condoms2022
2022
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Salt Balloon II is a framed contemporary pop art oil painting that presents two inflated condoms rendered with extraordinary photorealistic precision. Suspended against a deep black background, these condom forms take on a sculptural presence, their glossy surfaces catching the light in soft gradients that suggest both tension and intimacy. This dual inflated condom painting captures a moment of suspended encounter, where two seemingly weightless forms float in delicate proximity. Their shape and texture recall balloons, chicle, or even minimalist sculpture, blending sensuality, abstraction, and everyday material into a single visual gesture.
Executed in oil on canvas, this photorealistic painting demonstrates impeccable technique and careful attention to detail. The artist's mastery of form, reflection, and transparency elevates these objects—commonly discarded or viewed with aversion—into polished, elegant icons of conceptual pop art. Each curve, highlight, and subtle distortion is painted with precision, creating a visually striking and emotionally ambiguous composition. This contemporary pop painting does not seek to conceal its source material, but instead resignifies it with intelligence, irony, and a sharp aesthetic sensibility.
Part of María Magán’s acclaimed Chicles series, Salt Balloon II continues the artist’s exploration of sexual pleasure, humor, and transformation. By reinterpreting prophylactics as playful visual metaphors, Magán invites the viewer to reconsider cultural taboos and beauty standards. These inflated condom forms, so intimate in origin, become strangely tender and abstract in their new context—evoking softness, fragility, and a peculiar elegance. The painting is a powerful example of how contemporary pop art can create poetic tension between what is shown and what is suggested, between the erotic and the aesthetic, between the mundane and the elevated.
This small-format work, enhanced by its matte black wooden frame, is perfect for collectors of contemporary pop, erotic abstraction, or photorealistic painting. Its minimalist composition and conceptual sharpness allow it to stand alone as a sculptural object while also fitting beautifully into curated interiors.
Technical Details:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 20 cm
Framed size: 25.5 x 25.5 x 4 cm
Dimensions (packaged): 35 x 35 x 12 cm (estimated)
Year: 2022
Series: Chicles
Condition: New – Original work, signed by the artist
Frame: Included – Matte black wooden frame
Notes:
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Framing included. Additional framing options available upon request – please contact us for alternatives and pricing.
- Creator:María Magán (1983, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Width: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:FISTERRA, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2626216235102
María Magán
(Galicia, Spain) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo. Her practice explores textile art, painting, and installation, using sewing as a creative process that moves between political activism and poetic recreation. Founder of art collectives and cultural spaces such as La doce and LIBA colectivo, Magán combines artistic creation with cultural project management. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Spain and Portugal, including the Hybrid Art Fair (Madrid) and shows at institutions like the Fundación Museo de Artes de Ribeira. Her sensitive and experimental work weaves new material narratives connecting memory, identity, and territory.
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