Fac Simile, 2024

FAG  

Born in the early 80s in Paris, F.A.G has been steeped in artistic worlds since a very young age, starting with her amateur photographer father who for several years has not stopped surveying the capital in his company, camera in hand to take pictures in portrait mode or Parisian neighborhoods during his early childhood.

He was only ten years old when in the early 1990s he found himself in the discovery of graffiti through his father and posed in front of many Parisian walls sometimes in the presence of artists in action.

This period is always accompanied by a former artist at their side, since FAG's aunt is none other than one of the first dancers of the famous French singer Claude François. It is therefore once again that he imbibes an artistic universe made up of anecdotes and stories of all kinds and a holiday home filled with memories of his aunt's artistic scenes.

After a not always easy adolescence, made up of both love and injury, he left school at the age of 17 because he was already very off the hook and not very concerned, to join a football club and continue his sports training. This sporting momentum will be put on hold and even stopped after his best childhood friend died in a car accident 7 days after celebrating his 18th birthday with him. Despite a short sports recovery, he returned to the family home.

From there, it is the beginning of a spiral that will lead him to legal concerns and to experience imprisonment for years. At the end of this long period, he discovered the artistic universe again through the first paintings on paper and then on canvas by his father, who expressed himself at the age of 50 and of which they very quickly became a symbol for FAG. a breath of fresh air, a refuge, a hope and above all a real social and professional reintegration.

At the age of 30, FAG is reborn through art alongside his father, for whom he will play an important and decisive role in developing and recognizing this artist and his work, which he will succeed since his father's works will appeal to a wide audience. in various countries.

A few years later, at the age of 36, he wanted to discover another artistic universe, which led him to make an appearance in a film broadcast on a major channel.

After a decade of living daily through art and in the shadow of certain artists, 2023 is for him the year of creation, currently writing on his book project, it is passionate and at all just 40 years that FAG decides as if by desire and pure desire to express what lies dormant in him to create what is close to his heart, to photograph moments of life, thus transforming his ideas and his vision into brush strokes and frozen images .