Frederic Daty

With primary materials, street elements - metal, tar, rust, sand, spray paint - and stylized, forms stripped of the overflowing of images that floods us and knocks us, Daty requalify the environment and creates ' high reliefs ' of steel and shadows by playing with light and three dimensions to recreate an anamorphic world, to the altered and lyrical reality.
Invoking the surrealist world of Hieronymus Bosch, the symbolism of Gustave Moreau or the engravings of Gustave Doré, drinking from the illustrators of heroic-fantasy and science fiction (Moebius, Jodorowsky), fascinated by the light effects of the shadow theater Chinese PiYing, the kinetic art of Tinguely or Shun Ito and playing with perspectives in the manner of an Escher or modern 3D shooting techniques, it plunges us into a world of bubble cities, cities and towns. roots, from Birdviews where our reality is stylized, distorted, emptied of everything that makes life.
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Then only the skeleton of steel springing from the wall and the light playing with the forms and recreating life.The result is a force of narration, a magnetism where the spectator is surprised to try to fill the voids, feels absorbed by the energy released, driven by the movement, ...

A few exemples :

2023 March-April - The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles
2022 October - Gallery Cube - Marrakech
2022 October - Airport Gallery - Hamburg
2022 Sept - Art3F - Paris
2019 - Exhibition Art Symbol - Paris / France
2019 - Exhibition Arte Gallery - Hamburg and Sylt / Germany
2019 - ‘Ombre de villes’ exhibition - Glasgow / UK
2018 - ‘Ombre de villes’ exhibition - London - Liverpool - Manchester - Paris 2017 - Award sculpture - Chartres / France
2017 - Exhibition Arte Gallery - Silt and Berlin / Germany
2016 - Arte gallery - Hamburg / Germany
2016 - Salon d’automne - Paris Champs-Elysées / France
2015 - ‘TRINITY’ exhibition - Castle Fine Art - London / UK
2015 - Galerie Bernheim Jeune - Paris / France
2015 - Guest of honor - Salon du Vésinet / France
2015 - Exhibition Castle Fine Art - London / UK
2014 - Art3F Art Fair - Lyon / France
2014 - The Other Art Fair - London / UK
2014 - Salon d’art abordable - Paris / France
2014 - Art3F Art Fair - Nantes / France
2014 - Public choice award - ADAF - Amsterdam / Netherland
2014 - Vinci Facilities Company - Buc - France
2014 - Grand Marché d’Art Contemporain (GMAC) - Paris Bastille / France 2014 - Prince & Princess Gallery - Paris / France
2014 - Exhibition UMS Company with Vinci comp...