Artist Statement

My goal is to make people believe in the real­ity of my inner vis­ion. Whatever the sub­ject rep­res­en­ted or the chosen theme, the approach is always the same: to cre­ate the illu­sion of real­ity. Pho­to­graph­ic real­ism in oil paint­ing makes the impossible pos­sible, mater­i­al­izes the imma­ter­i­al, cre­at­ing the illu­sion of my sub­ject­ive real­ity in the object­ive real­ity of the viewer. 

The first phase of my approach, from 1994 to 2011, is the explor­a­tion of my inner real­ity, in the fields of ima­gin­ary real­ism, sym­bol­ism and sur­real­ism. The goal is to cre­ate a world that is as teem­ing, strange and con­fus­ing as pos­sible, while giv­ing it the appear­ance of real­ity, through the use of pho­to­graph­ic real­ism. Col­our is used in a trans­gress­ive way, ignor­ing the ori­gin­al col­our of the sub­ject. This approach allows total free­dom in the choice of col­ours. The second phase of my approach, start­ing in 2011, goes from ima­gin­ary real­ism to pop art and con­tem­por­ary art. It nev­er­the­less con­tin­ues the logic of the first, but by shift­ing the strange and con­fus­ing from the sub­ject to its rep­res­ent­a­tion. It is no longer a ques­tion of rep­res­ent­ing a mul­ti­tude of strange and extraordin­ary objects, but of rep­res­ent­ing a single object, banal and com­mon, in a strange and extraordin­ary way. See the extraordin­ary in the banal, the strange in the nor­mal, the unique in the multiple.