Dominique Vervisch

Dominique Vervisch was born in 1953 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. A graduate of the Rouen School of Fine Arts, he lives and works in Normandy.

Considered by his peers as a visionary painter, the artist likes to say that he "pedals against the climate". In his works, the emblematic monuments of large metropolises such as Paris, Shanghai, New York, Venice and Rouen are sometimes covered in snow, sometimes submerged.

These landscapes plunged into an eternal winter are populated by penguins, emblematic characters of Vervisch's work. The animal aims to question the functioning of our society on the capacity of man to conceive his existence in an adaptive and non-appropriative form.

Through his work, Dominique Vervisch shares climate change in a "climato-ironic" way, with a shift and mystification in the hope of succeeding in re-enchanting the future of our planet.