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It‘s funny, but no question embarrasses me as much as: which is your idol? I guess that I have never been "fan" of anyone. I like the work of many artists, but I do not think of having of model. It is, maybe, a way of not locking up my imagination.
Though, my work does not result from
a pure abstraction. It nourishes many influences drawn as well from the
art drawing as well as in the comics, the cinema, erotic photography or
even fashion.
To give you a small idea, here is a non exhaustive list of people who live in my visual imaginary area: Rembrandt, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec, Schiele, Moebius, Ugo Prat, Alberto Vargas, Pedro Almodovar, Gregg Araki, Federico Fellini, Pierre and Gilles, Herb Ritts, Patrick Sarfati, Jean-Baptist Mondino... I hate this kind of list; it reduces things too much and does not speak enough about those which make it up!
I take a great pleasure "to give flesh" to my subjects,
but also to work on their personality, which passes more by the attitude
or the look that by situations, even if I like setting the scene.
The principle is to move from
a simple posture to erotism and from erotism to sex while playing with
details, lightings and imagination of everyone. And always on the same
principle, by progressive slip, to pass from a touching innocence to a
teasing posture, from a faint posture to a violent provocation, from nonchalant
nudity to sexual demonstration.
It is also why I like to work
with color. Beyond the line, it underlines the atmospheres, the personality
of the characters or their intentions. It brings by saturation or exaggeration an imaginary dimension, a form of abstraction. It also can by contrast with the motif, to propose another interpretation of what is shown.
But this interpretation, you are free to accept it or not...
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