Curtiz - Those Happy People III

“Those Happy People III” by Curtiz (Kris De Meester) continues the artist’s haunting exploration of innocence, repetition, and urban isolation through a striking composition rendered in acrylic, ecoline, and marker on aluminium (60 x 90 cm). Against a luminous, almost artificial blue sky, a cascade of identical girls in vivid red dresses drifts between towering pink and crimson skyscrapers. Their downward or suspended motion, ambiguous and weightless, evokes both freedom and falling—a recurring metaphor in De Meester’s work for the fragile balance between joy and despair. The faceless figures, multiplied in rhythmic sequence, dissolve individuality, transforming the city into a stage for collective emotion and quiet existential unease. The saturated colors and clean architectural geometry create an unsettling tension: the scene radiates brightness yet feels eerily void of life. In “Those Happy People III,” De Meester refines his ongoing meditation on human detachment in an over-constructed world, where even happiness seems choreographed, fleeting, and strangely out of reach.