Statement Section
I have always been attracted to painting. I started oil painting when I was around 7 years old using knife techniques. Later on I developed many interests in media such as video, sound installation and music. My art is a mix between minimalism and expressionism: balancing concepts of simplicity, continuity and discontinuity of our world, the confrontation between time and the fear of time, the conceptual and the relational. A game between abstract and figurative, I constantly seek to express an emotional meditation. Always very curious, I needed to simultaneously experience many things and see them closer. Everything I do is with passion, becoming more and more emotionally involved in my work, charged by our environment, by love, by life and by death. Creating a painting is a full process for me. I start with building the frame, stretching the canvas, and preparing it to be the support of my art. I manually mix the pigments and all the ingredients necessary, like a scientist experimenting in a lab. I'm often surprised by the results, sometimes creating an successful accident. My influences are very diverse and started with the Punk movement, gothic, industrial, experimental and contemporary music, movements in movies and art: Viennese Actionism, expressionism, surrealism, many conceptual/contemporary artists such as Hans Bellmer, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Dado, HR Giger; writers George Bataille, Antonin Artaud; composers Michael Nyman and Steve Reich; etcetera...