Q. Where are you from?
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I have lived in
Montpellier (Southern of France) for 34 years
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When did you start painting / photography?
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I began the drawing with old 8 years by reproducing characters of comics and marvel, then I put myself at painting towards the old one 12 years, oil-base paints on canvas where I reprodroduct the pictures of the photographer of David Hamilton. I made my first photographs around 16 years, my first Muses were my close friends who lent readily to the play. I continued to paint and photograph all that was in connection with the woman, of the portrait, the fashion and of course of the erotism. The greatest revolution in my artistic life was the arrival of the computer graphics. In the Nineties I discovered the magic of Photoshop! I fell in love from there and did not leave it any more!
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Why are you an artist and when did you first become one?
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I think that I was born artist, I did not become it! I refined my technique and my style through my various researches but one does not become artist of the day at the following day, one is it or one is not it!
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What are your art influences?
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there is so much, of Andy Warhol in Picasso, while passing through David Hamilton, Jackson Pollock amongst other things.
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What is it that inspires you to paint / photograph a particular subject?
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only one and single inspiration, the most beautiful thing that God have creates: « the Woman »
Q. Where do you find your subject matter?
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in my head! lol! If not these last years I found a passion for the women headstocks and the women androids, I prepare a book with this subject, a portfolio of improved images which will be called “artificial girls”
Q. What materials do you use to create your art?
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for painting it is primarily of the acrylic resin on canvas
Q. Do you have any favorite artists and what have been the major influences in your art?
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David Hamilton inspired to me with these lolitas stripped much, with the cinema my Master is Tim Burton
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What’s your biggest accomplishment in terms of art?
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I did not achieve it yet, I am preparing a feature-length film for the cinema, that will be my greater achievement.
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What inspires you to create art and how do you keep motivated when things get tough?
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art is my reason to live, it is vital like eating or to sleep, I do not have to justify myself, art makes party of my life like my arms or my legs
Q. What other interests do you have outside of creating art?
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I am a machine has to create art, I cannot nothing make of other, the kitchen also I manage. (lol)
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What kind of Music do you listen to?
A. I always create in music, traditional, jazz, blues, film music… of the musics which make travel.
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Do you have any crazy art gallery moments?
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my strongest exposure will undoubtedly remain my exposure painting to New York in 1998. A very beautiful expo in a magic city
Q. Would you say that sexy / erotic art is making an impact on the international contemporary art market?
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not adzes with my taste, the sex disturbs much, few people are opened with erotic art. They let look at a violent film with their children, but as soon as one sees a centre or a buttock, oh my God, quickly let us change! vulgarity is in violence, not the erotism!
Q. Do you think porn should ever become an accepted art form?
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If the pornography is treated in an aesthetic way, of course.
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What advice would you give to an artist just starting out?
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To believe in him and of going at the end of its desires and its thoughts without taboo nor retained, looking at what the large artists created, by of inspired and to bring its own sensitivity.
Q. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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In 10 years? heuuu! with full of money to be able to make creation even more insane! and especially of the cinema!
Q. Is there anything else you’d like to say about you, your art?
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as long as there will be women…