Wesley Fellous

Wesley Fellous, known as Itsmewess is a French painter, born in 1991 in Paris. Attached to the Pop art movement, he works between Paris, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa and Los Angeles.

It was very young that he discovered a first form of art thanks to his grandparents. Her grandmother, Marcelle, was a seamstress, and her grandfather, Félix, worked fine leathers.

From adolescence, Los Angeles will become his playground. He walks the streets up and down. Deciphering, analyzing, scrutinizing an incalculable number of graffiti, painted works and other personalizations in the streets of the Baie des Anges, this open-air artistic abundance fascinates him to the point of creating a desire, almost a vocation. At 14, he wants to be like those big names he discovers and who transcend him: Mr Brainwash, Cope2, Shepard Fairey or even Banksy. All bring a universal message to the world: joy, love, tolerance and beauty, a simple art with a sublime aesthetic.

Back in France, he was introduced to photography by renowned photographer Daniel Siboni. Itsmewess discovers this new art, chaining landscapes and shootings of very young fashion: Cotton Heritage, Ed Hardy, Vente-privée.com, OpenLoop and JOE'S Jeans. He will have notably photographed Jade Leboeuf, or even Yaël Boon. Several opportunities present themselves to him, and he will have the opportunity to collaborate remotely with the creator Christian Audigier as part of an issue of the magazine Bigger Than Life, which he designed in 2009.

He fully immerses himself in this world by creating personalized works of artists and comedians. This is particularly the case of comedian Bun Hay Mean, who was offered a portrait of him in the image of the Manga Dragon Ball, of which the "Funny Chinese" is a fan, on June 24 on the stage of La Cicada.

The comedian duo Odah and Dako also receive from him a personalized canvas representing them in the guise of the famous manga, on July 19 on stage.

Actor Steve Tran was offered a pop art portrait shortly before the release of the second part of the film Neuilly his mother, his mother!. It will be during the month of August that it will be put forward more. Emmanuel Smadja, director of Pranzo Evenementiel, calls on Itsmewess to provide all the show funds for the second edition of the Tel Aviv Comedy Club, a comedy festival he is setting up in the White City. He also created fifteen paintings for each artist who performed, and offered them on stage during the closing night of the festival. He painted the portraits of: Kev Adams, Richard Orlinski, Caroline Vigneaux, Judith Mergui, Majid Berhila, Eric Litman, John Eledjam, Roman Doduik, Alex Fredo, Sacha Judaszko, Sebastien Goeta, Samuel Bambi, Jacob Tsévi, David Smadja and Fary.