THE ILL & THE HEALER. 55×75cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011

Before this serie, I have spent years of practicing contrast without lines, making color stand forthemselves one beside the other, helping eachother to got more impact thanks to the contrast of the ones beside it.

But I felt like changing this rules, I had to find new esthetics, I wanted to be surprised.

I wanted to bring a cynetic dimension to the work.I’ve been working again with limited colors. Just black and white plus red and blue. I’ve been using alternation of lines of diferent colors , I also started to work with shade in oredr to bring a bit of volume to my work that has been flatter and bolder with the years of simplification.

I kept on working on faces, mixing lines thanks to the juxtaposition of various profiles, and was happy to see how these faces seemed to move, floating on the paper.

I & THE SHADOW. 20×30cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011

I & THE SHADOW.(Detail). Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper.  2011

I started with one and then just let my hand keep on till almost 12 were done. Here are some of them.

I & THE SHADOW. 20×30cm. Gouache, pen and pencil on 250g paper. 2011

I presented my latest works, and had to paint a 6×4m mural on which a 2×2m wooden square was hanged in the center.

THESE FEW WORDS. Acrylic and spraypaint on wood. 200×200xcm. 2011

Just before I came, I started to make some spontaneous free writings on paper. I always loved writing, playing with the meaning and shapes of words and letters, but I spent most of these last years working on the abstraction of realism. During the process of this mural, I enjoyed the organic freedom of playings with words’ curves and rimes.

REMED. Gouache and markor on paper. 2011

The first meeting I had with letters was with the ones that build my name. I have repeated them, on and on.  Alzays living a part of spontanity that would bring the unexpected variations that would surprise me.

CES QUELQUES MOTS. Spray and pen on paper. SKETCH for the wallpainting.

For the wall, I’ve been inspired by this paper, but wanted to find a sentence that would provoke a deeper feeling than a name can do. So I tried to find some rimes. And these came out :

“THIS FEW WORDS THAT CURE MY ILLNESS, THESE FEW LINES THAT CALL YOU WITNESS.”

The text is written in french which is : “Ces quelques mots qui soignent mes maux, ces quelques signes qui vous font signe.”

“CES QUELQUES MOTS…” (THESE FEW WORDS…). Spraypaint and acrylic on wall, with 2×2m canva in the center. 2011

DETAIL of  “CES QUELQUES MOTS…” (THESE FEW WORDS…). Spraypaint and acrylic on wall, with 2×2m canva in the center. 2011

I painted the center part with acrylic paint so that it would be much cleaner than the wall, and create a contrast between the mural and the canva.

“CES QUELQUES MOTS...” (THESE FEW WORDS…)

I had the chance to see my Art exhibited beside great artists that i consider as my father such as Hundert Vasser, or Keith Haring.

WORDS OF (HE)ART. Acrylic on wall. 400×600cm. NY, CMA museum. 2011

I went their in order to paint a mural inside the new local of the museum, down Manhattan. I decided to make something that would spread a good message to the kids. A bit of an utopy I’ve always tried to protect against the teeth of cynism. I wanted to believe it is still possible to be naiv. And allow one to be hopefull.

WORDS OF (HE)ART. pen and gouache on paper. Sketch

I searched first about a drawing, a visual, made of symbols, but found out my expression will be clearer if i use words. And that was a great excuse for me to play with letters curves and rimes.

WORDS OF (HE)ART. Acrylic on wall. 400×600cm. NY, CMA museum. 2011

JULIA IN FRONT OF THE (HE)ART WORDS. 2001. NY,USA

During the opening, more than 1000 people came, and most of them were children. They had the opportunitys to take part in workshop in order to create some Art that truely amazed me. Here are a few samples of what they did.

CHILDREN ART WORKS. Result of the opening workshop. NY. 2011

The aim of the exhibition was to present some Art that would inspire children to create. All artists presented worked once in public space. That was the link between all of us.

Here are a few pictures of what the kids could see while discovering the museum

KEITH HARRING AT CMA MUSEUM. NY, 2011

HUNDERT WASSER AT CMA MUSEUM. NY, 2011

CRISTO AT CMA MUSEUM. NY, 2011

The museum is located in Manhattan, down Charlton street & hudson. I invite you to visit it if you’re around some day.

P E A C E

THE I BIRD. Detail. Acrylic and spray paint on wall. 10×20m

At first, I wanted to paint a drawing I already made a few weeks before, a kind of face that mutate into a bird, a sort of Phoenix I guess.

THE I BIRD. Gouache on paper 250g. 30×40cm. 2011

The original was really colorfull, but i felt like it wasn’t anymore the colors i wanted to use cause i wanted to keep the awesome texture that the wall gain through the years thanks to erosion. I wanted to keep most of the soul of it.

So i changed the color game into something more simple but also more contrasted with the color and texture of the wall. I felt like it was moment for me to come back to basic contrast and line game.

THE I BIRD. Work in progress.

THE I BIRD. 10×20m. Lodz, POLAND. 2011

L’ART COMME MIROIR DE L’AME. 6×15m. Bassano del Grapa. ITALY. 2011

After a wide period of being able to spread colors to the people, i felt like going back to a more black and white style, with just 2 colors fighting each other. Considering the format of the wall, i made a few sketches to find the right composition. And a kneeling man, holding his head in his hands, came to life on the mural.

Pen on paper. 21×30cm. 2011

I first did this sketch of a winged man about to enter somewhere, but it wasn’t coherent with my feelings of the moment. So I’ve chosen to draw more untill reaching an honest result. And finaly made a man, headless, holding his face staring at himself.

L’ART COMME MIROIR DE L’AME. Mixed media on paper. 21×30cm. 2011

L’ART COMME MIROIR DE L’AME. Spray paint on wall. 6×15m. ITALY. 2011

Here s a link of a video about the INFART festival.