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Florkey  

Florkey is an artist born in 1976 in Verviers, Belgium. He is associated with the POP-GRAFFITI movement, very committed to others. His artistic performances and his sensitivity can be discovered in his paintings.

THE WORKS OF RESILIENCE

We cannot remain indifferent to the approach of Florian Caucheteux, alias Florkey. A recognized artist in the very broad street-art movement, he did not however start in the street like many graffiti artists. His career is more classic in a few dates:

1986:

Fine Arts of Verviers

1989:

He creates and paints with his dad his first fresco of 180 cm on each side. It is a 2CV… Florkey has always been a fan of this car. In 1995, he will make a second one in the bedroom of his new house. His family has returned to live in the city center of Verviers.

1989 – 1995:

Artistic studies at Sainte-Claire Verviers

1995 – 1998:

Graduate in Graphic Arts at Saint-Luc Liège

1999:

A graphic designer, he has gained experience in advertising agencies in Belgium and Luxembourg.

2003:

He teaches computer graphics and graphic design at Saint-Luc Liège and becomes a freelance graphic designer. He creates his own communication and events agency, which will be called Florkey and then Bien-Vu, in order to clearly dissociate the artist from his commercial work as a graphic designer!

For several years, he edited the magazine Nature et Privilège from A to Z, printed in 25,000 copies and distributed free of charge in his region.

2010:

He will stop this magazine after 18 issues to return to painting. He will exhibit in 2010 at Libr'Art in Libramont. His art is then a mixture of computer graphics and painting.

He will create a series of paintings from banknotes that disappeared from circulation with the arrival of the euro. Each note used to create a painting will be integrated by collage and sewing into the graphic creation printed on canvas, which will make it unique.

2015:

He is preparing an exhibition on the theme of the round in the square. He is creating a series of 15 small square formats in white on a black background made with posca.

He also creates new acrylic paintings that will be a junction between these banknotes and the media mix. He uses spray, reinvents screen printing with old curtains and collage.

Following this exhibition, he spent 3 years in charge of the artistic and event management of the art gallery which had invited him to exhibit.

He will organize more than 30 exhibitions at a rate of one every six weeks. He will continue to paint a little and will not hesitate to exhibit in collective exhibitions that he organizes. But it is too much for one man… his full-time teaching, his graphic design agency, the gallery and painting. His body will impose a very radical stop on him.

2018:

Free ART: art for everyone, everywhere

Florkey creates 100 small paintings on canvas boards They were then abandoned all over the world: Liège, Maastricht, Le Touquet, Greece, Seville, Dubai, Brazil.

At the end of 2018, Florkey fell ill and stopped all his professional activities. He would never leave his sketchbooks and markers again.

2019:

The Prices of Danger

In 2019, Florkey nearly died due to serious health problems. Two cancers in six months.

During his convalescence, he took part in his first international competition: RED DESIGN for the Luxembourg sparkling wines Bernard Massard.

2019: International recognition

September 2019: Florkey wins the RED DESIGN Bernard Massard competition. His Bernard Massard street art lettering will be published in several thousand copies on BM bottles for the end-of-year celebrations.

January 2020:

Florkey hastily enters Graffiti Art Magazine's WHITE PAGE CHALLENGE contest and wins first prize. His drawing will be published in the Parisian magazine, which is published in more than 14 countries.

2021:

Paint to camouflage

His region was the scene of violent flooding in 2021, and faced with this disaster, the artist will paint on the wooden panels that camouflage the devastated homes.

2022: A sick year...

At the end of 2021, the disease returned, his brain tumor recurred. Florkey will have another brain operation on November 26, 2021.

At the beginning of 2022, just before starting 6 weeks of radiotherapy, he came up with a completely crazy bet:

Paint 100 canvases on the back in 100 days. In fact, following his relapse, he had to cancel his participation in the BRADERIE DE L'ART in Liège and Roubaix.

With the help of artist friends who came to help him, he will succeed in his bet and even exceed it. He will donate the nice sum of €12,100 to Télévie. In 2023, he will organize a group exhibition in his village with his artist friends and will succeed in painting more than 80 small formats. He will be able to donate €7,300 to Télévie.

2024:

He goes to meet Ludovic Daxhelet to offer him a painting made that same day. This painting, one of "just the canvas" (without frame and stretcher) in homage to Ludovic Daxhelet, will be sold at auction and awarded €2,500 for the benefit of Télévie.

ACQUISITION :

The municipality of Andenne will acquire its Kdolls for €4,500. It will be placed in front of the municipal swimming pool. All the money will help sick children.

Since 2021, Florkey's painting has raised OVER €29,000 for various charities.

2021: ASBL APEMT21 €1,000 (Ze Art Gallery)
2021: St-Roch Theux School – Solidari' Theux €1,000 (personal initiative)
2021: Duck's-Art – (approx.) €510 Lions Club
2022: Télévie – Résil'art €12,100 (personal initiative)
2023: Télévie – €7,300 (personal initiative)
2023: The Frog's Little Steps (approx.) €250 – Rotary Liège
2024: ASBL Kdolls €4,500 (Kiwanis Marche)
2024: Télévie €2,500 (auction on Clicpublic.be of a painting on a 100 x 100 cm tarpaulin – personal initiative supported by Télévie)