“I have two major concerns: those of a typographer and those of an abstract painter.
A concern for the beauty of letters and a concern for the pictorial reproduction of an inner vision.
On the one hand, I strive to strike a balance between a word and its calligraphic form.
On the other, I seek optical plasticity through the medium of painting.
These two pursuits overlap or merge depending on the work.
As a child, I was drawn to the relief maps we had in class.
This inspired my artist name.
I was also interested in optical illusions and graffiti.
It is the syncretism of these attractions that gave birth to the work you can admire in this gallery.
Furthermore, I have a tendency to see the world flat, like a planisphere.
In my paintings, I seek this boundary between the second and third dimensions. From the three-dimensional object to its flat image, from artificial light to its pictorial transposition, from the word to its universal form, I seek to reveal my creative process by multiplying it, by offering multiple facets of this transformation—like a continuous exploration between abstraction and reality.
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