Tristan Wu is a painter who lives and works between Taipei, Taiwan and Avignon, France. Born in 1989 in Kaoshiung, in the south of Taiwan but he grew up in London. In 2006, back in Taiwan, he began to draw short sketches and other strips in the high school newspaper that mocked the local education system, where both students and teachers were driven to burnout. We offer you a virtual exhibition made up of works dazzling with liveliness and sincerity, which will transport you with shattering energy. Discover the work of Tristan Wu through some original pieces, representative of the artist's work. Self-taught, Tristan Wu is inspired by the world of manga and comics as well as his military family environment, marked by the Chinese civil war, the ornaments and iconography of armies. Replaying scenes of domination and revolts with humor and imbued with jubilant rage, Tristan Wu creates a conquering universe where justice is led by "Hysterical Mitch", his fictional double, who alone resolves injustice and sublimates pride of tie rods. Alternately emperor, head of the armies or simple hockey fan, Mitch's hysteria, like the one that inhabits Tristan Wu, allows struggles to be put into an abyss, whether in war, in sport, in street or individually in each of us. Faithful to his dual culture, his compositions intertwine, in an aesthetic of power, Chinese cultural forms with the imagery of a globalized pop culture.
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