Description
About me
Plastic artist :
Lives and works in STRASBOURG - FRANCE
Artistic approach :
The human body is painted through flow, flood and impulse, the comings and goings between darkness and light, passing through anamorphoses and metamorphoses, with nods to the genius of the Renaissance, the Baroque style and contemporaneity.
Between weightlessness and sensuality, constraints and freedom, the human and animal worlds, I have played with opposites and instability in order to express an impetus and to seek one's/my own boundaries.
I have tried for some years to create large scale anamorphoses and optical illusions for the architectural space. The effect of the anamorphosis accentuates the illusion of movement for the viewer who, when coming and going through the space, sees the artwork changing going from a figurative representation to abstraction. The visual impact of the artwork is amplified and stretched through the use of linear perspective. I see it like the sound of a note that lingers on at the end of a concert before it dies away. The actual shape of the unaltered piece can be seen if one views it from a specific angle. The works can be made on materials such as walls, posts, windows, floors, ceilings, mirrors and more.
One line can hide another, appear, disappear and make visible… the invisible…
Work / Education
Education and training
1982/1985 : Illustration workshop by Claude Lapointe
1985/1988 : Painting workshop by Franck Wohlfahrt
1988 : Municipal degree in painting at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg – France (Renamed HEAR – Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin)
Artistic approach :
The human body is painted through flow, flood and impulse, the comings and goings between darkness and light, passing through anamorphoses and metamorphoses, with nods to the genius of the Renaissance, the Baroque style and contemporaneity.
Between weightlessness and sensuality, constraints and freedom, the human and animal worlds, I have played/tinkered with opposites and instability in order to express an impetus and to seek one's/my own boundaries.
Other works :
2017: « Anamorphosis cube » Realization of an anamorphic mural painting in the Lgi'hic room at the Vaisseau in STRASBOURG.
2012 "The gardener's house" Wall painting on external facade, rue d'Adelshoffen, SCHILTIGHEIM (F).
2010 "Sun Through courage", acquired by the city of LINGOLSHEIM, as part of the renovation of the Wedding Hall of the City Hall. (F)
2009 "Reach yourself", artistic arrangement on the stainless steel passageway to the the Chamber of Trades of Alsace, for its 110th anniversary, SCHILTIGHEIM (F)
2007 "Kunst am Bau", artistic arrangement of public area for the expansion of a High School specified in high level sports : "Otto-Hahn Gymnasium" (D)
2009 "Anamorphosis-09" : pictorial intervention on the glass facade of the outward hall of the Regional Council of Alsace in Strasbourg, as part of the exhibition "Atout Coeur" organized by Villla-Rhéna association (F).
2017 “Anamorphose” for the Vaisseau – STRASBOURG
