ADOR. Familiar Yet Foreign

About

Artist / Show Statement:
The universe I’ve been building for many years is growing up with all that characters living together. For this new exhibit, I think of each image like a lost comic book created in my studio.

It’s about a big story where both animals and humans are treated in the same way, but each time the aim is to tell a story where the spectator is invited to imagine by his own, how my protagonists must feel in each situation. Bringing together a unique mix of inspirations from various fairy tales, comics book, caricature art, and the works of other great painters, I try to use a childish way to talk to all of us – who like me – would have been a kid who never wants to grows up.

The works talk about actuality, responsibility and the dream state we all often escape to. I build my characters as I would approach building a new language.