Defacing Dictators

Drawing my friends for the second defacing project was an interesting and enriching process where I tried to match my perception of their personality with their portrait and that was quite a reminiscent approach that in most cases brought me a smile. Drawing dictators...

Annie Kevans

While researching the images to use in upcoming exhibition Not Welcome from my Defacing Art Project, I found this artist that imagines portraits of dictators as boys. I found this approach to representation of power and sociopolitical systems very interesting:...

Ludovic Le Couster & Sébastien Preschoux

While hicking on the the outskirts forests of Paris (right around where Vincent van Gogh lived his last days: Auvers Sur Oise) we found some installations while we were walking… later on that afternoon we met one of the artists doing the installations and were...

See Italy and Die

We were invited to the opening reception of See Italy and Die at the Musée d’Orsay and it was OK… but what we really liked was to walk on an empty museum without guards…(defacing was not on my head… not really!… OK maybe just a little) We...

Replay Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is a chilling representation of an artist’s life with his replays where he did his self forgeries to get back at critics and buyers… learn more, google.

Yan Pei-Ming at the Louvre

It was nice to see Yan Pei-Ming – Mona Lisa’s Funeral at the Louvre… A portrait of Ming’s Father alive, then Mona Lisa, then a portrait of Ming dead. I am not sure what it means but I would have liked to see Yan Pei Ming to try do Mona Lisa in his...