Born in 1969, Mambo is a French artist living in Provence.
Since the start of his career in the mid-1980s, Mambo's works have been links between modern, contemporary, minimalist art and graffiti to create a praxis and a style of his own. His works range from semi-abstract graphic plays of lines and spontaneous drawings to abstract action painting, including his characteristic red-orange portraits.
Mambo's artistic career is structured around four main series: Strokes, Brainology, Mindscapes and Humans.
Able to choose the style or discipline necessary to express his feelings in the moment, his works display an expressive graphic universe full of underlying meanings, combining observation, ambiguity and humor. But humanity remains the central theme of each Mambo work, inspired by the brain and its mental processes, sensations, emotions, memories, inner feelings and mechanical reactions. Human behaviors become colorful ideograms, our environment becomes a dictionary from which Mambo draws symbols to write his own prose: visual enigmas, combining intuition and mastery.
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