Michael Gromm

Jackie Chan is seventy and no longer jumps off buildings

Name: Jackie Chan is seventy and no longer jumps off buildings
Brand: Flinders Lane Gallery
Price: 3500.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$3,500.00

2025 – Original

acrylic on linen.

97cm x 87cm

This piece lands like a cinematic fight sequence—explosive, unpredictable, yet meticulously choreographed. Gromm’s bold colour fields collide with electrified mark-making, forming a network of movement that is as precise as it is unruly. With a title that merges nostalgia, action-movie bravado, and the inevitable passing of time, Gromm seems to ask: what happens when the frenetic energy of youth meets the reality of aging? His layered forms suggest both momentum and restraint, an artist wrestling with the impulse to push forward while acknowledging the weight of what has come before.

Like its namesake, Jackie Chan is Seventy and No Longer Jumps Off Buildings embraces contradiction—it is both full-throttle and contemplative, a visual stunt sequence frozen mid-air.

About the Artist

Learn more about Michael Gromm

Michael Gromm’s relationship to his medium speaks of an open two-way process of making and unmaking, of the physical actions of painting and the emotional impacts of looking. These are tremendously flamboyant images, joyful and brash in their exuberance. Paired with the somewhat allegorical, sometimes nonsensical titles he bestows upon each one, they also speak of the absurd and superfluous acts, decisions and spontaneities that drive much of our human endeavour. Gromm’s large fluid paintings seek to suspend the viewer in a state of preternatural ‘nowness’ creating moments of visual and mental spaciousness, capable of encouraging creativity, reflection and calm within an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world.