the two paintings at a few hours of completion


 

HIBISCUS CAFETERIA
Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)
Private collection, Germany
Painted in Miami Beach, 1998

2 other paintings of coffee espresso machines and hibiscuses,
completed August 2000, for a collector in London.

Story:
You can see me painting it, in the street, in front of a bush of hibiscuses, in the video clip home page. I attempted to celebrate the melting pot of Miami, that, if not really a harmonious one, works like an espresso machine. All the parts are necessarily well imbriquated and are to work, beautifully I have to say, on top of a nice fire. In my daily work at the studio, the expresso is my fuel, and is know down here as "Miami Gasoline". The availability of expresso, cafe conleche and cortatido, and this wonderfully convivial Cafe Colada (a plastic cup of syrupy expresso that goes along 4 or six miniatures cups in paper, and that is what most of us have experimented as introductory tool on any local job site) is what make at first the Cuban community so likable. However, speaking of "melting pot", the expresso machine as painted here is of ... Italian origine.

Other coffee paintings by Pierre Marcel , for a cigar emporium at the new Moscow City-Hall, in 1998 :
     

 

 




Florida. February 2005.

 


Coffee  is not only Pierre Marcel's favorit fuel, it is a recurrent theme in his work.
Even the students at the Pierre Marcel new art school in France are invited to improvise on coffee :
  An example, January 2005 :  

 

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