David Abrahm

Born in 1975, David Abrahm is a rising star in French conceptual contemporary art.

His resolutely modern work postulates that our way of life must be staged in its most original expression, sometimes the most ferocious, but always the most substantial. And it is without complex that he has been striving for many years now to unfold, crumple and tear everyday objects, the better to re-solidify them as, he thinks, they should never have stopped. of being.

Everything goes there then. And the gaze of David Abrahm to rest with a cold determination on our lives; our newspapers, our leisure activities, our amusement parks, our technologies, our human productions, everything slips away and is slowly rebuilt, work after work, to take back a place that we no longer expected.

The integrity of this destruction-reconstruction is perhaps the centerpiece of this work. Where others get lost in gesticulations and never find their way again, David Abrahm meticulously deploys our daily life, simply, without any pretension, but with the obstinacy of permanent questioning. I cannot say where or how, but I have a strong conviction that there is something Douanier Rousseau in this artist.

And since we are there, we are talking about his '' inspiring father '' as he says himself, Arman: "At each of my resin flows, or when I collect soil in an undergrowth, when I dig a mountain electronic components, or when along a railroad I pick up barbed wire, I think; no, I saw Arman. "

All that was needed was for the attention of professionals, of course, but also and above all fervent admirers of quality art, to Abrahm. So you can find his work in the catalogs of major contemporary art sales, or in the most informed galleries of Paris and Moscow, and perhaps also, if you have the chance, in certain collections of individuals in Europe and in Asia.