LA COUR DES RATS (The Rats’ Courtyard) - 100 x 100 - Alain Rouschmeyer
LA COUR DES RATS (The Rats’ Courtyard) – Engaged Figurative Painting – 80 x 80 cm
They’re here, in the courtyard.
Clustered. Silent. Shifting shapes against the bruised walls of a place that might be real — or entirely symbolic.
This is no peaceful scene.
It’s a tense choreography of the excluded.
Raw textures meet harsh tones.
LA COUR DES RATS unsettles. It exposes.
And what it reflects back to us might not be them… but ourselves.
Technical details
Size: 100 x 100 cm
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Framing: Unframed – edges painted
Varnish: Satin UV-protective finish for long-lasting protection
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Price: €5,100 – (includes certificate, secure packaging, shipping within France or internationally)
This painting is part of an ongoing exploration of human presence within collective spaces, where bodies are not just individuals, but social signals.
The term “cour” echoes multiple meanings:
a courtyard, a court of law, a place of power — but also a place of judgment, of gaze, of control.
And then there are the rats.
In the visual culture of street art, the rat is a symbol — elusive, stigmatized, subversive.
Here, it becomes a metaphor for exclusion, for survival under pressure, and perhaps even for the artist himself.
This is not just a social scene — it’s a mise en abîme, a loop of reflections.
Who are the rats? The subjects? The artist? The viewer? The art world?
LA COUR DES RATS is not meant to comfort.
It questions what we look at, what we value, and what we choose to ignore.
A social and symbolic closed space
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A painting that unsettles and provokes thought
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A signed work by Alain Rouschmeyer, contemporary figurative painter.