Cover of Elba Magazine

A magazine cover collaboration. Elba Magazine is a free art mag distributed on the Italian island of ELBA. The island Napoleon was imprisoned on!

"Ridi, Bonaparte ridi" is the artwork I created for the cover of Inside Elba Magazine. My intent was to ridicule wars and to play with the stereotype of a megalomaniac Napoleon by replacing him with a mocking figure hid-den behind a mask. The clown I referenced is the Joker by Todd Phillips. This character is a conspiracy obsessed madman, delusional and childish, who resorts to violence. So I brought the legend of the past into the present day - but in my artwork the gun only shoots water and wars are revealed as the senseless obsession of madmen.

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