Ozan Virgule

Originally from Tunisia, Ozan settled in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region where he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Bordeaux in 1994.

Upon graduation, four years later, the young artist in turn became a drawing and painting teacher at the same higher school.

In parallel with his teaching activity, Ozan develops his own artistic practice, largely nourished by the numerous advice given by his teachers throughout his training, which are Francis Vignaud, Michel Marue and Daniel Ballon.

The essence of Ozan's pictorial art revolves around two main groups: the work of the material and the representation of the female face.

Although he has known how to express himself for a long time through different genres - in particular scenes of everyday life - it is the portrait that remains at the heart of his practice.

Armed with a base composed of acrylic, charcoal and oil, the painter makes the subject emerge from the background using a careful play of contrasts, both chromatic and luminous, which gives the subject all its depth.

Quoting the French painter and sculptor, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) who said that "exactitude is not the truth" (1947), Ozan executes his portraits with enthusiasm and energy, guided only by his brushes including body language, sometimes random, is an integral part of his approach.

Resolutely expressive, her faces contemplate us with a penetrating intensity that cannot leave anyone indifferent.