Sebastien Waknine

Sebastien Waknine absorbs heterogeneous elements that come from both ancestral cultures and graffiti pioneers, combining pictographs with totemic references, loans from esoteric imagery and winks at abstract expressionism or art brut.

Witnessing what inspires the Artist throughout this iconographic collection, Waknine composes plastic universes where the apocalyptic and redeeming tone often coexist. On the very same pictorial surface we see scenes of birth and death, violence and salvation, Sanity and Insanity.

There is a strong admiration and fascination with millenary cultures, African tribes to American Indians with their sacredness of masks and rituals. This the artist reinterprets through portraits of zoomorphic or human iconic figures, thus creating his own pantheon of gods, heroes and demons. The chromatic saturation and the deformation of the features impregnate those faces of hieratic crudity.

They make up a gallery of teratological beings that arouse horror and tenderness simultaneously, inhabitants of an archaic age, of a posthuman future or of a world parallel to ours.

Anna Adell

University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), UK, 2003/6, BA (Hons) Fine Arts Richmond Upon-Thames, London College of Arts, UK, 2002/2003, Art Foundation

2019 Street Art City, Expo “Dimensions”, Lucy Levis, Francia.
2018 Base Elements Gallery, “Desert Sculpture” Collective, Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Base Elements Gallery, “Street Collection”, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Mutuo Gallery, “Collaboration Station”, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Carretger5 Gallery, “GigoLove”, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Lush Gallery, “Lush Fantastic”, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Untitled Gallery, “Broken Scale”, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Mariland Gallery, “Past To Now”, Barcelona, Spain
2014 Punto G Gallery, “Todos Son Uno”, Oaxaca Juarez, México
2014 Azomalli Gallery, 'Alebrijes', Oaxaca Juarez, México
2014 Sequeiros Gallery, “Yescka”, Oaxaca Juarez, México
2013 Espacio Zapata, “En Los Brazos”, Oaxaca Juarez, México
2013 MiNiAtUrE art Gallery, 'Dos filos', Tulum, México
2013 Hotel 40 cañones, 'Colors Of México', Mahahual, México
2012 Factory-Art Gallery, 'The Factory' Berlin, Germany
2012 DIMAH, 'Big n Bold', Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Briedenbach Studios, 'Skinless', Heidelberg, Germany
2012 Willi Bender, 'Project Willi Bender', Heidelberg, Germany
2011 Estudio Margarita, 'United in Crisis', Barcelona, Spain
2011 La Felpa, 'Windows' Barcelona, Spain
2010 Untitled Gallery Bcn, '6X6' Barcelona, Spain
2009 Galerie 30, 'W...