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"There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes": when Charles Baudelaire writes these words, in Le spleen de Paris, he cannot imagine how much a designer from Marseille - born 98 years after the death of the Parisian poet - will draw from such sentences the strength to sublimate existence. And to become an artist. How amazing.
"The artist is an artist only on the condition of being double and not ignoring any phenomenon of his double nature" says the poet again, in his Aesthetic Curiosities. For the man behind Karl Beaudelere's pseudonym, it took a long time, but it's done!
Of course, in elementary school already, drawing allowed him to escape, far from the noise and fury that reigned in the family home. Eric imagined he had “come from space”, inadvertently ejected from his initial planet. Left-handed, he admired his pals who copied the Spiderman comics. And his brother, who read Baudelaire to prepare for his baccalaureate. He also remembers the day when a plastic arts teacher asked him to crumple a sheet of paper, then to imagine a figure from the folds obtained. “When we draw, we always look for appearances”.
(…) Security guard then, at night, listening to the radio, Eric notes a host of ideas in a small notebook. “I wanted to find a plan to flash. I first created a process, in 2006, that I submitted to the INPI, to make plexiglass sculptures. I decomposed images according to a four-color logic, to make sort of screen-printed holograms. I wanted to invent a three-dimensional stained-glass window, to provoke sensations like in the movie Star Wars… I found myself penniless. I just had enough to buy boxes of ballpoint pens at the market. So I started to draw. I took the name of Karl Beaudelere and I had the idea to hide myself. To mark the fact that I am from another caste ”.
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"There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes": when Charles Baudelaire writes these words, in Le spleen de Paris, he cannot imagine how much a designer from Marseille - born 98 years after the death of the Parisian poet - will draw from such sentences the strength to sublimate existence. And to become an artist. How amazing.
"The artist is an artist only on the condition of being double and not ignoring any phenomenon of his double nature" says the poet again, in his Aesthetic Curiosities. For the man behind Karl Beaudelere's pseudonym, it took a long time, but it's done!
Of course, in elementary school already, drawing allowed him to escape, far from the noise and fury that reigned in the family home. Eric imagined he had “come from space”, inadvertently ejected from his initial planet. Left-handed, he admired his pals who copied the Spiderman comics. And his brother, who read Baudelaire to prepare for his baccalaureate. He also remembers the day when a plastic arts teacher asked him to crumple a sheet of paper, then to imagine a figure from the folds obtained. “When we draw, we always look for appearances”.
(…) Security guard then, at night, listening to the radio, Eric notes a host of ideas in a small notebook. “I wanted to find a plan to flash. I first created a process, in 2006, that I submitted to the INPI, to make plexiglass sculptures. I decomposed images according to a four-color logic, to make sort of screen-printed holograms. I wanted to invent a three-dimensional stained-glass window, to provoke sensations like in the movie Star Wars… I found myself penniless. I just had enough to buy boxes of ballpoint pens at the market. So I started to draw. I took the name of Karl Beaudelere and I had the idea to hide myself. To mark the fact that I am from another caste ”.