Thomas Auriol - Sans titre - XXL

Original and unique artwork, signed on the back. Sold with certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube (no stretcher frame) to keep shipping costs down. BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS AURIOL Thomas Auriol is a French painter born in 1987. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Spain and China and has also participated in several group exhibitions all over France, in Switzerland and Romania. With painting between Saint Quay Portrieux (France) and Cadiz (Spain), Thomas has established himself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally. Due to his daily practice of sailing, kitesurfing or paragliding Thomas Auriol built a strong and intimate relationship with landscapes and explore it through painting In his earlier abstract paintings, Thomas Auriol invented hybrid forms based on small improvised drawings. Smooth objects, isolated spots floating in lyrical uncertainty. The artist cuts up and superficially treats images in order to bring forth a kind of dizzying painting. His compositions concentrate space filters, materials and phenomena in one. As a video editor, he attaches special importance to the way in which these variegated elements transition into one another. Cakes, space creatures, gardens, a shoe or a cockpit are all included in his newer paintings. A disturbing image gradually emerges on the canvas, like a fade in a video. This analogy between his painterly approach and video is no coincidence: the artist spent several years traveling the world and filming the kitesurfing world championships. The painter airbrushes thin layers of toned greys, pastel colours and strange tertiary colours on the canvas. The entire surface of the canvas appears organic. Each canvas establishes a kind of specific, unique and complex relationship to abstraction and depiction. His paintings are a demonstration of the dazzling quality of images. They soothe and excite us at the same time, giving us a very specific kind of respite from the overwhelming onslaught of screens in today's world.