François Bel

François Bel is a French artist from Lyon. He’s a painter, a sculptor, a installation-artist and he has many sources of inspiration.
He grown in Street-art atmosphere, which inspire himself by repetition and multiplication. He has such an interest for any Art History movements as « New Realism », Dada and Pop-Art, which devious daily items to criticize our society of consumption, as Marcel Duchamp did with his ready-made.
His work, made of nylon strings for his suspensions and iron strings for his sculptures, François Bel reappropriates all materials. A game of partitionning, he denounces our contemporary society, by its individualism, by its materialism. Then, each material has its own artistic and philosophic measure.

His tiny « Big Bang » encrusted in acrylic glass, like if they were fixed in the instant by explosion interogate ourselves about Time, which pass, consumes and survive ourselves.
In a society where the fast is the best answer, where human being has control on everything, François Bel cristalize people’s dreams, by saying stop to Time in his artworks.
A mix of frustration, fascination, his sculptures are the reflect of our civilisation, our anger, our intern revolutions jailed in a too much powerful society.
« Utopist stand-up, you’re not alone anymore »