The works reinvestigate the very nature of Figurative Painting. They uses its essentials characteristics such as perspective, light, materials... The paintings have a slick, glossy surface and are realised on wood panels with airbrush, following a process that takes its roots into the traditional method of Classical Painting. They are worked in monochromatic coats covered by color layers. The thin washes of airbrush paint, the combination of painting / underpainting and and the glossy surface give a particular light that seems to come from the background of the painting reminiscent the screen of a computer.
The Artworks emphasise our immersion in the virtual world and new technologies : those works are based on 3D modeling with a free, open source software, simulating light, space and materials. With 3D softaware construction of the canvasses become litteraly, a construction game.
Although their workmanship shows a strong technical mastery, a close inspection lets appear tiny scalpels strokes, painting’s drizzles or subtle brush strokes on the surface, thus exploring the relation between the digital and the analog. They reflect the way how we apprehend pictures today, question us about the very nature of Art and our perception. They find themselves at the border of Painting, Toy’s Photographs, and print of a 3D rendernig.
They represent minimalists ‘Pixar’-esque characters with smooth shapes, schematic, having figures’ or toys’ aspect revealing shades of what could be interpreted as a plastic material, more or less glossy. These portraits, scenes, nudes or still lives draw references to the history of Painting. The ‘high and low’ effect blends together cartoon and high classical references. Nudes can remind Ingres, Matisse, Léger or italian painting’s nudes and extend this long tradition but offer a contemporary version. So the works are also engaged with Representation and offer a vision of the Body and the Human as an object made of an unorganic material. They show charcaters having a kind of empty or frozen emotion which reinforce this ’object’ effect.
They spread a large number of references going from Classical painting, to Minimalism, to Abstraction or Pop art...