Sylvain Fornaro

Born in Chevreuse (Yvelines-France), in december 24th 1971. I live in the South of France where I work mostly on painting or drawing, sometime in a very scattered way. I am at first fond of comics, fantastic movies, rock'n roll, special FX and other things... as cardboard... The first painter who touched me was Munch but quickly I got to like many others as Otto Dix ; Hopper ; Fussly ; Turner..... Mostly Edward Hopper, finally... I am also attracted by totalitary art (and it's aesthetics) and interrested by propaganda (which questions me).
I 've been painting for about 30 years, inspired by different kind of things but mostly everyday life (and night...). The street was one of my first subject of preference, for exemple one of my early picture, in 1988, was called "Side Walk 1" and even if I never made "Side Walk 2" (yet ?), I did other frames with titles as "Bus Stop Up Town" ; "Bus Stop Down Town" ; "Rush Hour" ; "Commuters" etc, as I lived in New Orleans for two years around 1990... At the same time I've always been attracted by fantasy, imaginary subjects, some ways to watch life through a fantastic filter (extrapolation). Internal life, for sure, has also been influent on some more introverted paintings as my series of Aby...

88-89 :studies at the beaux arts school of Ste (38),france.89-91 :studies at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Delgado Community College for drawings and illustrations and exhibitions.92-93:lived and exhibited in Liege (Belgium).94 :Biennale des Jeunes Crateurs dEurope de la Mditerrane, Lisboa (Portugal).95-96 :exhibitions in Maubec Avignon and Paris...97-2008 :exhibitions in Perpignan, Apt, Draguignan, St Remy de Provence, Cavaillon, Chateaurenard, Carpentras, Fillols, Gordes, Isle sur Sorgue, Aubagne and Marseille...2005-2008 :painting and video workshops with children in southern France, Kosovo and Albania (Labomotrice association)... and different experiments based on video works ...