Nicolas Deconinck

Nicolas Deconinck grew up in the suburbs of Paris. Based in Paris and Berlin, he was, in turn, Professor of Applied Arts, show decorator, painter and author for television.

A bohemian life that took him to Alsace, where he wrote his first novel: “Les Yeux d'Iris”.

Self-taught, he expressed himself in different media and over different periods.

Author and actor, he participated in the creation of the group of videographers "Les Intermythos", with Blanche Gardin (with whom he lived and married) and Ali Arhab; a troupe which found its place on Canal + and Comédie, from the Vrai Faux Journal to the Grand Journal, to a series of programs "Ligne Blanche" and the "Jamel Comedy Club".

Painter, he exhibited in several Parisian galleries, in Saint-Germain des-Prés, at Mr Catoni, "The Connoisseur's", at rue Quincampoix, at Odile Van Bey, and especially at Art Brut, a café initially opened by the "Cats Pelés", plastic artists and musicians, better known under the name of "Têtes Raides".

Stage decorator, he worked in particular for the decoration of the Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, “Noctiluque”. Jamel Debbouze was also one of his sponsors to decorate the entrance to his theater, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle.

Inspired by many journeys, both mobile and immobile, the “ Favelas ” represent constructions made of rudimentary material such as cardboard, primed, painted with pigments and finalized with oil paint.

A cluster of houses superimposed one on top of the other, where the eye, accustomed to following a plan or a line, a “marked out” path, gets lost in the multitude of sedentary huts. The eye becomes nomadic. He searches, travels, wanders in a fragile world, in the middle of these empirical, social layers, like our thoughts which accumulate, building, over the course of knowledge, a sacred knowledge.