Particulier achèterait cher grain de folie

Particulier achèterait cher grain de folie
2007 - 30 cm x 30 cm
Acrylique sur toile de sérigraphie
Vendue

Mes ailes sont brûlées

Mes ailes sont brûlées
2004 - 42 cm x 33 cm
Techniques mixtes

Mon bon génie

Mon bon génie
2008 - 60 cm x 60 cm
Techniques mixtes sur toile

Nous ne pourrons jamais être d'accord

Nous ne pourrons jamais être d'accord
2009 - 50 cm x 50 cm
Acrylique sur toile

Maman tu viens m'aider à pousser papa?

Maman tu viens m'aider à pousser papa?
2008 - 110 cm x 140 cm
Acrylique, encre et pigments sur toile

Je suis con sauf moi

Je suis con sauf moi
2008 - 25 cm x 25 cm
Techniques mixtes sur bois

Celui qui voulait abattre le soleil

Celui qui voulait abattre le soleil
2008 - 150 cm x 200 cm
Acrylique sur toile

Comme toi je meurs

Comme toi je meurs
2008 - 60 cm x 60 cm
Encre et pigments sur toile

En avant vers un monde plus adapté à nos besoins

En avant vers un monde plus adapté à nos besoins
2008 - 60 cm x 60 cm
Acrylique, encre et pigments sur toile

Je n'ai peur de rien

Je n'ai peur de rien
2009 - 40 cm x 40 cm
Techniques mixtes sur toile

J'ai plein de mauvaises raisons d'avoir la rage

J'ai plein de mauvaises raisons d'avoir la rage
2007 - 46 cm x 35 cm
Techniques mixtes

Prêt

Prêt
2008 - 60 cm x 60 cm
Techniques mixtes sur toile

Un éléphant qui se tripotait

Un éléphant qui se tripotait
2009 - 65 cm x 45 cm
Acrylique sur toile libre, sous verre

 
 


David POEY or "Dav", paintings.

Dav graduated from the Reims Higher School of Art and Design and only took up painting afterwards, when his printer broke down...

The world moves fast, very fast. To be honest, we see very little of it. Dav strays off the beaten path, focusing on seemingly insignificant details that mean everything, mixing them up and sending them back to us as question marks. Naïve, absurd or cynical? Atypical for sure: the painting of this young artist is an unusual combination of figurative, abstract and narrative elements. The recurring characters in his work seem to have escaped from an unlikely comic book where the innocent and dream-like world of children collides with the oh-so rational reality of the adult universe. His free application of matter adds structure to the artistic medium, always creating a unique scene - a dialogue of shapes, colours and techniques. The narration, through the almost systematic addition of captions and written clues, serves as a link to the image, enabling numerous interpretations. Rich in wordplay, Dav's comments and aphorisms show us the extent to which language imagines and turns the world into words, frees it and imprisons it. These texts, throughout all the artist's paintings, drawings and graphical works, form a literary corpus with a philosophy similar to that of Picabia, Cioran or Debord.

The coexistence of all these elements on a single surface produces a multitude of possible meanings, enabling each viewer to confusedly add their own experience to this approach. Here, every discovery is a starting point.

Dav plays with whatever he finds at hand, or in his head: words, objects and beings. In a world that we share with him, all of this is mixed up and arranged in the semantic odds and ends of his workshop. A laboratory of human complexity, Dav's painting is neither sad nor joyous: it moves us in a most peculiar fashion, with humour and poetry, for better or worse.

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