Born in Cahors in 1951, Chamizo is a contemporary artist whose pictorial work is figurative and comes from lettrism; now perceived as an alternative to graffiti and tag art. Chamizo is mostly known to be the creator of what is called lettric abstraction-figuration. His striking paintings criticize the consumerist everyday life from social, political, philosophical and aesthetical points of view. Chamizo synthesizes this everyday experience into suggestive and well recognized symbols. Chamizo is an engaged artist in the post-modern understanding. He condemns an Art market from which artists from developing countries are discarded. Chamizo exhibits his art with the most reckoned artists of his era like Jeff Koons, Arman, Niki de Saint-Phalle, César, Combas, the Di Rosa brothers, Kenny Scharf, Birk Dietman, Erro, Antonio Segui…