Grimaldi, urban archaeologist

Pierre-François GRIMALDI, city archaeologist Born in 1969 Pierre-François GRIMALDI lives and works in Paris. His work is built and begins with a search for material: posters from the 30s to the 50s still present in the Parisian metro stations. It is during the renovation of the stations that the artist, like an archaeologist, goes on the traces of the past and appropriates these posters. He creates compositions of paper that he maroufles on canvas to…

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Fernando COSTA, sculptor

The son of a Portuguese immigrant who took refuge in Sarlat, Fernando Costa will never leave his native town and will become an emblematic figure of the small perigueux village. Like his brothers, Fernando Costa took a CAP Hotels, which led him on board the Queen Elisabeth 2 where, as the youngest employee of the ship, he remained a steward for several years. During his crossings, he will meet different artists who will give him…

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Nebay, the ecstasy of colors

With Nebay, the shapes blend into the background from which they suddenly seem to emerge to give way to hidden lettering. Optimistic messages coo with acidic compositions; typography coexists in perfect balance with numerical symbols. Nebay has taken her bearings in the street, a characteristic for which it will come as no surprise to find in his canvases the spontaneity and élan that are characteristic of urban artists. The individuality of the curves, glorified by…

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My name is CHANOIR

You probably came face to face, at the bend in an alleyway or in an art gallery, on a Cha, this creature with rounded shapes that have animated the walls of many capitals. These theriantropic characters are the work of Alberto Verajano, alias Chanoir. Of Bogotanese origin, he later travelled the world where he left his mark with each passing. It is in the studio of Jean-Michel Alberola, a major artist on the French scene…

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