VIVA LA VIDA
Coldplay. “Viva La Vida”, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Parlophone Records, 2008, track 7.
Ikechi, Ugonna. Viva La Vida, 2022.
revolutionaries wait
for my head on a silver plate
just a puppet on a lonely string
oh, who would ever want to be king?..
Hand-painted in 2022 on Procreate, “Viva La Vida” is a piece from Ugonna Ikechi’s third solo exhibition In Translation. This painting is inspired by the 2008 song of the same name by Coldplay. The Artist poses this work as a companion piece to “What’s Going On?” from the same collection. This iteration depicts a tyrannical ruler who has lost all power & has faced justice via execution, to the joy of the land.
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