Edouard Baribeaud
dal 1/3/2012 al 13/4/2012
Segnalato da
1/3/2012
Edouard Baribeaud
Galerie Judin, Berlin
For the series Hic sunt leones, the artist paints with gouache color on large format sheets of paper. If this is evidence of a move towards painting, then it comes with an equal measure of imaginativeness and ease that have distinguished his oeuvre to date.
The work of the 27-year old Baribeaud is characterized by his bilingualism and a dual cultural identity. He has an astonishing command of the classical techniques (pen and ink drawing, painting in watercolors and gouache paint and delights in mixing them freely, combining seemingly incompatible styles within the same drawing.
One is not surprised to encounter a sprayed stickman walking through a grisaille landscape executed with the accuracy of an old master; or to find several Dutch genre scenes blended into one trompe-l'oeil collage. Baribeaud likes to contrast the mundane with the mythical, to lead archaic figures through modern landscapes and in doing so, to blend real personal experiences with invented memories.
His works sometimes carry French, sometimes German titles - depending on what speech melody better fits the image. In addition to the history of art and the experiences of everyday life, Baribeaud often turns to film history as a source of inspiration. The fact that he likes working in extended series, with individual drawings bearing a chronological and narrative coherence, point to this cinematic approach to drawing.
In his most recent series, Hic sunt leones, the artist paints with gouache color on larg format sheets of paper. If this is evidence of a move towards painting, then it comes with an equal measure of imaginativeness and ease that have distinguished his oeuvre to date.
Born in 1984 in Versailles to a French father and a German mother he was brought up in France and studied book illustration and printmaking at Paris' prestigious École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Baribeaud has taken part in group exhibition internationally, including in Colomiers, Paris, Annemasse, Berlin and Nantes. In 2010 he moved to Berlin, where he currently lives. Since his arrival he has created an impressive body of works on paper.
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Image: Edouard Baribeaud, Bal masqué | 2011 | Tusche on paper | 31 × 41 cm
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