MINIVAN_ROUBAIX_2020 Painting

Aurelien Roger Raymond Bonnetaud, alias A.R.R.B, is a visual artist living and working in France. His work depict modern world & human habits by looking trough the prism of architecture & urbanism. this mixed media artworks combine photos taken by the artist and painting techniques ( watercolor, ink, acrylic, oil, spray, ... ) His work stand as a crossing between painting and photography. Most of his pieces aim to achieve a perfect harmony mixing a precise and mecanic approach of "objective photography" with a more emotional touch of paint and gesture. His field of interest mostly focus on architecture and cityscapes. As we may be busy with everyday life tasks, one may not consider our daily surroundings as a source of aesthetic feeling ... as we may more easily see the fonctionnal use of these surroundings : supermarkt, higways, suburbs, factories, subways, street views ... Nevertheless, behind those concrete structures lie a deeper meaning, something that speak about us, something summoning or ancestors and calling for the futur generations. But now is what we are living in. As an artist, A.R.R.B claims to capture, trough those cityscapes and "non-places" [cf.Anthropologist Marc Augé], something of today 's zeitgeist. By doing so, he both carries an action of witnessing our era and interpreting its moods and flow of ideas. For more info or contact : www.arrb.fr