Renzo

RENZO (Hugo Lobet, born in 1992) is a French artist whose work emerged from the Parisian graffiti scene, a world that has shaped him since adolescence. Passionate about letters, he makes them the anchor of his constantly evolving artistic and pictorial research. Trained in typography and calligraphy, he designs his own alphabets and relentlessly explores his expression of the letter and the line, the codified rhythm of writing, which he pushes to the very edge of abstraction.

Like a lapidary engraver, RENZO strips the letter down to its bare bones, retaining the essential tension between shadow and light. In this balancing act between structure and erasure, the viewer's eye is invited to decipher what is concealed, to reconstruct an inner language.

Between geometry and calligraphy, cryptography and graffiti, his work traces a territory of visual vibrations where gesture becomes structure, and where abstraction takes the form of silent writing.