"Brigitte Bardot" 2024

Dimensions: 100 x 130 cm

Medium: Spray paint and silkscreen on screen-print panel

Artist: Maximilian Wiedemann

In Brigitte Bardot (2024), Maximilian Wiedemann does more than recreate an icon—he embeds her within the very mythos of her life. At first glance, the piece is a striking, high-gloss portrait of Bardot, rendered through Wiedemann’s signature fusion of spray paint and silkscreen. But look closer: her entire form is constructed from the fragmented image of her former husband, Gunter Sachs—layered, repeated, and abstracted until his face becomes the matrix for hers.

This is where the work moves from pop to poetic. Sachs wasn’t just a fleeting chapter in Bardot’s public narrative—he was her great love, a man who, like Bardot, understood the power of image. Their relationship was a whirlwind of wealth, beauty, and celebrity spectacle. By using Sachs’ image to build Bardot’s, Wiedemann collapses the line between muse and mirror, lover and legacy.

The technique is subtle but deliberate. Sachs’ likeness—rendered in a tightly gridded silkscreen—is used as the visual scaffold upon which Bardot’s famous features emerge. The effect is haunting: her presence is inseparable from his, as though memory and identity have been fused in layers of pigment and code.

Wiedemann, ever the cultural provocateur, reframes this love story not as nostalgia but as construction. Bardot is not just remembered here—she is reassembled, pixel by pixel, through the man who once worshipped her. It’s a gesture both romantic and unsettling, emblematic of Wiedemann’s ability to turn celebrity into artifact, and artifact into commentary.

In Brigitte Bardot, beauty is not just shown—it’s deconstructed and reimagined. For collectors, the piece offers more than visual impact; it’s a layered, conceptual portrait of mythmaking itself.