Don't trust the machine, 2018

Marc Ferrero  

Original mixed technique on canvas with resin for a rich color and a very contemporary effect. Storyboards represent the very essence of the art of storytelling, the aim of which is to tell stories in paint by using the fusion of different graphics and borrowings from cinema. Marc Ferrero is a contemporary French painter who brings painting into the 21st century by creating the STORYTELLING ART movement: The movement revolves around 3 basic principles: The creation of painted fictions with a perfect mastery of hand-painting oil, the manipulation of framing by integrating the cinematographic techniques of narration and the fusion of graphics, the pictorial movements then become tools at the service of the narration. Styles, techniques, pictorial movements, eras are superimposed to compose an overall story, a work of “storytelling art”. The characters are recurring, the heroes embody a protest against the dark side of the world. The heroes form the rebel network la Comitive: Lisa L'AVENTURA: American/Monegasque banker who despite her glamorous appearance is a well-known businesswoman in the heart of the financial center of Wall Street, she is at ease in the trading rooms but also on the Cannes red carpet or in the front row of Fashion Weeks around the world. She is the "brain" of La Comitive. It's a Lucky Number. High IQ. Transfiguration queen. Andrew Michael PERCIVAL (DUKE): English, trader for 10 years, he made his fortune, lost everything and disappeared, today he is the most wanted man in the city of London, night poker player and amateur of jazz, he puts his many talents at the service of La Comitive. Has the mathematical eye Marcello Di Cordoba (CELLO): Argentinian, professional polo player, jet setter, raised in a circus, leader of a band of "gauchos". Known in South America for his fight against financial crimes, a sort of modern-day Robin Hood. Master of timing, left for dead after beginning to reprogram to enter Fast Life. The dark side is represented by the World of Acceleration led by Lord True Love. The nerve center is in the floating cities which are accessed by a tube interspersed with safe doors. Its members are part of Fast Life: multifaceted beings, lucky numbers, robotic creatures (ex: monkey droners), banksters: its secret police. The painter plays with the plans like a film director, mixes genres, techniques and ideas while seeking a point of balance in his canvases which makes his work a moving whole in which the spectator becomes an actor and enters into the story through his own interpretation. Such is the extraordinary power of painting because everything becomes possible, no clear-cut answer is possible. Everyone will then see the imaginary world created by the artist through a different prism, the eye, his internal camera will allow him to feel the scenes differently. Storytelling Art creates moving works in which the mind and sense of the viewer are involved and it is in this too that this pictorial movement is innovative. Storytelling Art projects the viewer into a story that they can follow or appropriate. “I never exhibit my works, I come to tell a story to the public…. »Marc Ferrero