Artists

Philippe PASTOR

Pastor was born in 1961 and he lives and works in Monaco.

He is a prolific self-taught artist who works with various techniques, the essential basis of which is pigment applied to paper. The drawing is then glued to a canvas.

He has exhibited his work in Monaco, France, Italy, Rumania, Belgium, China and the United States. In 2007, he took part in the Venice Biennial in Italy, where he presented his recent series of works entitled “The Bulls”. He presents these powerful animals interspersed with politically incorrect messages portraying the artist’s lucid outlook on today’s society, his outlook on the world, his view of himself. The animal is positioned as if it was an observer of what the artist calls “the human drama”, as if it was a self-portrait.

Techniques. He uses a variety of techniques. He uses pieces of wood or plaster in the same way he uses crumpled paper or cement, but essentially pigments from all over the world. The painter mixes his colours instinctively, without measuring or dosing. He works quickly but not hastily.

Inspiration. Philippe PASTOR’s work is based on the tension between appearing and being. His drawings are inspired by daily life and the things he sees around him. His series are always inspired by the people he meets at a certain time in his life.

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Louis Cane

Né en 1943 à Beaulieu sur mer

Louis Cane est un artiste de   renommée internationale, diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs puis de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris.

Louis Cane s’interroge sur la question des matériaux dans la peinture ainsi que dans le domaine de la sculpture. Il expérimente, recherche, observe les différents matériaux. Le support étant sans cesse réinventé, qu’il soit: plastique, toile, grillage ou encore de bois, leur forces leurs fragilités et leur mise en mouvement sont pris en compte par l’artiste qui en fait une réelle préoccupation.

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Richard Ballard

The diversity of the formats, the techniques where one finds at the same time watercolour and oil, fabric and paper, a rich matter and a line provided, make the works of Richard Ballard the expression of nature jumping out of the canvas.

Richard Ballard, born in Liverpool in 1951, has lived and worked in Paris for the last 20 years.  He has, many times over, had exhibitions in the United Kingdom, United States and throughout all of Europe...

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