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Catherine II is my first iconoclastic portrait. The great russian ruler of the XVIIIth century is here present as a playing card, the queen of Clubs, on top of a rosace of playing cards representing various kings, valets and even jokers. Those are all her lovers, as she's know to have had many lovers in her lifetime. I sum up her life of a great ruler as just a great lover. One might say this is rather unjust. On the other hand, she's a rare person amongst rulers to be known for her very numerous love affairs. It is perhaps even her main distinction, why not her pride. Caricature is mostly about stressing one's peculiar physical traits. I just wondered if it is possible to make a caricature without even drawing a person. This is a first attempt of psychological caricatures/portraits. The setting of St Petersburg gives an additional clue to the portrait. Nevertheless, I wanted the portrait to remain in a very traditional style, in the spirit of the etchings of the end of the XVIIIth century. The use of playing cards highlights the spirit of frivolity at the imperial court. I chose different card games to show the great variety of men Catherine fancied, from kings and princes to mere valets... Even if Catherine was a great romantic, love appears here just as trivial as a card game...
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Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in
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I am a French and Polish artist, born in Paris in 1972. Coming from a family of artists (my mother Julita is a sculptor, my sister Gabrielle a painter, my brother Pierre a music composer...) I've expressed myself in my childhood mainly through drawing. Then for many years I dropped art totally and went into studies and work, to realise a few years back I cannot live without creating. A peak time is my New York experience for a few month in 2008, where I briefly just plunged into creation, before coming back to what had become my normal everyday life... After that, this urge for creation has grown on me progressively until a recent making out in 2011, when returning from a very enriching experience as a plumber in Bangladesh slums, where I had spent about a year and a half... Quite lost at my return home, I can say I slowly came back to myself only through art. The action of sculpting was a highly restructuring experience to me.It rebuilt me and gave a new meaning to my life. Since then, I've been creating and considering myself as an artist. In the meantime I got married and am a father of adorable twin boys, born in 2016. With this parenthood experience my creation has necessarily evolved, I considered myself primarily as a sculptor, but with restricted time and access to my clay workshop in Touraine I had much frustration. Hence my latest sculpture projects with various materials including recyclables and rubbish, my recent return to drawing, my discovery of collage and also painting to a lesser extent. Today, another page will be turned with our installation mid 2017 in a new house in Saint Cloud, near Paris, with the possibility of having a workshop at home, and generally more space and more time dedicated to creation.
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