Vincent Gicquel Born in 1974 in Normandy, Vincent Gicquel spent his childhood building cabins and, when it rains, reproducing in his father's studio the paintings of the fathers of modernity (Van Gogh, Monet or Picasso ...) . He then developed a very deep attachment for oil painting and a little later for tragic philosophy. Schopenhauer's reader to whom philosophy has yielded nothing but spared a lot, Vincent Gicquel chose to become a painter because, he says, “I had too much humor to be a serial killer. "