THE LIFE AND ITS MYSTERIES Romain Bonnet: “A former professional flamenco guitarist, I took my musical retreat in the South of France to dedicate myself to another form of art that allows me to associate several forms of artistic expressions, such as painting or manipulated photography. Even if the technique is important, I focus mainly […]
A CACOPHONY OF CULTURES Worlds collide in the work of Léo Dorfner; we see high art, mythology and popular media combine to create an azure-inked cacophony of cultures. Dorfner, a Parisian native, was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Dorfner’s work acts as a crystallization of today. Just as we exist in a […]
NOSTALGIA Matthieu Bourel collects old photos of actors, celebrities or pictures of magazines to make surreal images and animated GIFs. “I like to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed. The obsession of collecting disparate images from books, old magazines and other found material becomes as […]
AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE Nicolas Côme is a French drawer & illustrator living in Paris. He is a pure product of the 90’s. From copycat drawings of his idols (especially Akira Toriyama and Todd Mac Farlane) he knew that he couldn’t take another path in his life. Inspired by Sayens, dinosaurs, video games, Men in colorful […]
A PAINTED NEWSPAPER François Bard’s inspirations are simple: “I like painting ‘trivial’ subjects from my daily surroundings. I try to find examples in the various mediums that surround me: newspapers, TV, films and the Internet. The figurative compositions are often cropped closely on the hands, legs and bodies of the subjects, lending them an unusual […]
A BODY GRIMED, DISGUISED, TRANSFORMED… Isabelle Féebrile: “Selfportraits are for me, a support, a language, where my body is like the blank page of a diary. This body grimed, disguised, this naked body, transformed but who remains me, give me the chance to tell stories, wounds, dreams that I couldn’t express with words. Each my […]