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Biography

Alexandre Dizac, known as Alëxone Dizac, is a French artist who lives and works between Paris, Ivry, and the rest of the world. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a fantastical and colorful universe where drawing and painting play a central role.

It's hard not to talk about graffiti when discussing the work of Alexone Dizac.

Undeniably, the discipline acted as a catalyst in the artist's development, allowing him to educate his vision, improve his technique, and fuel an insatiable curiosity for a multitude of art forms. A true lever, graffiti allowed him to evolve his painting and broaden his horizons by developing a strong interest in comics, travel, art history, and typography. The graphic design world, encountered during a professional break, also had an impact on the artist's aesthetic. Brushes gradually replaced spray can caps for a practice almost exclusively focused on the studio.

Alexone Dizac's paintings are born in abstraction and color. The development of each work begins with the careful selection of a colorful "bourgeois fabric" covered in patterns. This backdrop is important both for its pattern and for the chromatic direction it induces. He applies irregular, sometimes dripping, flat areas of paint to the fabric, which accumulate in a colorful abstraction. A complementarity is created between the print and the painted surfaces in which appear the fine lines of animal and human figures, taken from the artist's bestiary. Little by little, dogs, cats, elephants, fish, and horses invade the canvas alongside anthropomorphic penguins. An iconic protagonist of Alexone Dizac's works, this strange bird with cartoonish postures finds itself elevated to the main subject or relegated to the status of a simple decorative motif in each composition. In perpetual motion, Panurge's bird moves with its eyes closed among its fellow creatures in dreamlike frescoes teeming with detail. While the titles give the works a narrative value, the story and moral of these visual fables remain open to interpretation. A keen eye, however, will be able to perceive the caricature of a personality, the amused allegory of a political speech, a discreet dedication, or certain biographical elements hidden in the paintings of an artist attentive to the environment and the people around him.

Going beyond the canvas, Alëxone Dizac's drawings colonize new surfaces by unfolding in a multitude of mediums. Fascinated by craftsmanship and its production techniques, he leads numerous collaborations in which the mastery of an artisan reveals a new facet of his pictorial universe. The field of experimentation is wide: lithography, bronze, glasswork, ceramics, design, styling, and culinary art are all disciplines and professionals with whom the artist collaborates. Each encounter gives rise to the creation of unique works, limited editions, objects, or treats intended for wide distribution.

Attached to fine books and publishing, Alëxone Dizac devotes himself to the regular publication of printed works. The majority of his productions are thus found inventoried in catalogs designed by him. It is notably in the pages of a manifesto publication that the very eccentric Alëxone Company appeared, an imaginary enterprise "specializing in large-scale pictorial production" of which he holds the position of CEO. Behind this pastiche of a multinational with 17,899 employees (including three salaried employees!), the independent artist constantly replays the practice of painting and drawing in constantly renewed artistic proposals.

Pierre Ligier

Nationality

French