FABIEN VASCHAERE @ CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY
OCTOBER 14 - OCTOBER 28
The work of Fabien Verschaere converys a deeply personal mythology by way of drawing and watercolor. His paper works and wall drawings create an intimate theater of urban life in which recurrent patterns, human f... Read more
FABIEN VASCHAERE @ CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY
OCTOBER 14 – OCTOBER 28
The work of Fabien Verschaere converys a deeply personal mythology by way of drawing and watercolor. His paper works and wall drawings create an intimate theater of urban life in which recurrent patterns, human figures, animal, and objects blend together into a personal and imaginary world informed by the nuances of the human condition.
“There has never been a connection as direct and as radical as a marking on a city wall. Whether it be in the form of a poster or of a graffiti, the urban mural notion is most always the result of a political initiative. From Diego Rivera to Keith Harring, the wall is a symbol of revolution. Canvasses are meant to be moved, to travel as the memory of a people, whereas murals and graffiti are truly contextual, seen head-on, in the same place where they were created. For me, graffiti is the beginning of the nineties: Public Enemy, Assasin and NTM, the realization of an urban culture. It’s also the relationship to the Beat Generation, the poetry of Jim Morrison…Graffiti is the automatic writing of art, available to anyone. Its influence was social and not graphic, always in the spirit of the nomadic: The wall, for me, is not an obstacle, but an opening onto the world.” – Fabien Verschaere
