Belgium
• 1973
Biography
In his 10-year career, Frédéric Penelle gave printmaking an energy boost with his innovative practice. He created a body of work that is original, witty, fun and serious at the same time.
In the lineage of surrealism and black humor, his work is like a UFO in the contemporary art world. There are creatures of all shapes, reunited in bizarre zoomorphic bestiaries, strange machines and mass consumption; all these elements meet in a critique of today?s hazardous progress that creates hybrids and mutants about to get out of control.
Beneath this sensation of a huge mess , we can feel a science of remedies that fascinates us, a science of organs that frightens us, and Frédéric Penelle?s perspective that makes us smile.
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In the lineage of surrealism and black humor, his work is like a UFO in the contemporary art world. There are creatures of all shapes, reunited in bizarre zoomorphic bestiaries, strange machines and mass consumption; all these elements meet in a critique of today?s hazardous progress that creates hybrids and mutants about to get out of control.
Beneath this sensation of a huge mess , we can feel a science of remedies that fascinates us, a science of organs that frightens us, and Frédéric Penelle?s perspective that makes us smile.
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When was Fred Penelle born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1973