BIOGRAPHIE

Born in the suburbs of Paris, Christophe aka Oxyzen immersed himself very early in comics and developed his interest in the atypical, corrosive and crazy universe of Fluide Glacial, Gotlib, Mézière, Tronchet, Larcenet... and from there already, the dep' Art is made on first sketches…

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The adventure begins and then life, studies, a career in new technologies make him take another direction but always implicitly, this passion for drawing which will gradually turn into a desire to create, to move, to provoke , to communicate, to be him, in short… and it is painting that will be his true revelation, his second voice!

From his first emotions around the work of Picasso and his cubism period, he revisits, paying homage to them, the works of Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the series of clowns by Jean Dubuffet.
He is inspired by several currents of "Art" as he likes to say... free of any artistic movement, he who lives with this exacerbated sensitivity, sometimes on edge, that he seeks to let express...

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Raw art for what it has most spontaneous and immediate without seeking artifice, product of the soul in the present but also primitive art, abstract art or even free figuration which offer it a formidable range of means of expression!

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The Artists who guide him are just as different... Basquiat, Di Rosa, Peter Saul, Combas or even Miro from whom he draws his Birds series, a mixture of inspiration with Calder and from which he will create a version of 3D stabile, colored, aerial and in movement !

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His paintings are very colorful, sometimes using flat tints of primary and pure colors or sometimes abstract and offbeat.

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He paints under the aegis of emotion, it guides his thought as much as his brush... None of the creations they make escape it... They are a part of him, of his blood, of his tears, of his joys , of his sweat… It is then up to everyone to take possession of it, redefine it, comment on it and finally make it their own!

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Wasn't it Pierre Soulages who said: "An Art without presence is decoration"

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Finally, as universal as it is, isn't true happiness that of soliciting emotion?