I am a self-taught artist. I was born along the shores of the Mediterranean in Sète, in south of France, in a city surrounded by salty waters, almost an island. With an engineer diploma in hand, I traveled the world, working and...
Read MoreI am a self-taught artist. I was born along the shores of the Mediterranean in Sète, in south of
France, in a city surrounded by salty waters, almost an island. With an
engineer diploma in hand, I traveled the world, working and living abroad
(Netherlands, Brunei, Argentina, Angola, Azerbaijan…).
Then, Art became an
absolute necessity.
I conceive my
creations as a painter, even though I hardly use paint! I conceive my
creations as a poet, even though I destruct words, to retain only
onomatopoeias, desperate attempts to communicate. My brush strokes are hand-made tears.
My preferred
materials are those that can be found in the streets, having suffered the
passing of time or those, whose mundane functions do not spontaneously elect
them as arty material.
I want my work to
build upon the ‘humanity’ and the fragility that I perceive in these
simple materials. Working them is a tribute to the social environment in which I collected the material. An artistic redemption!
I develop my work
in series according to the places of collection which have given its specificity to the material .
Through hand-made tears, involving deeply the
body in the creation process I build rhythm. Working like a novelist
focusing on the melody of the sentences, the tears organize the canvas space,
to create the graphic equivalent of a writer’s style.
I
work internationally, having exhibited in France, Germany, Spain, USA, UK, and
Azerbaijan. In 2012, I did a 7.5 m long wall for the top floor ball room of a
new hotel in Barcelona. In participated in Art fairs in Cologne in 2014 with
the HLP gallery. RedFox press published two books on my work...
