C i b r a
Most of the totems and paintings are on wood or metal. I favor industrial-type media, mixing abstract geometric shapes with textured drips, controlled in order to keep a structured and balanced surface. I emphasis texture turning the paintings into sculptural works.
Some of the bigger totems are double-sided, their mood and color loosely marked by current political and social events.
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Mini Bio
I spent a few years studying at the design school 'Met de Penninghen
et Jacques d'Andon' in Paris, and as an apprentice in the atelier of
sculptor Louis Molinari next to Paris. I pursued research while studying
Soviet cinema
and art and spent some months on a scholarship in Russia.
I worked on a series of paper collages mostly based on a research in
primary colours and volumes. I interrupted my graphic work for a few years
during which I worked as a film editor and edited documentary and
independently produced films.
My tendency to use primary colours and geometric shapes has probably been
influenced by the Russian Suprematist movement and Der Blaue Reiter, with
artists like Malevitch and Kandisky. The collage-composition in certain
paintings owes also to the cinema--Russian-Soviet cinema and the Vertov,
Eisenstein theories of montage. If I like the energy that works by Jasper
Johns, Pollock, or Motherwell communicate, I also enjoy the structure of
Diebenkorn's works and feel close to the vibrant and contemplative
poetic
of colours in Rothko's paintings.