STF - Moscato at Gallery Daeppen - "Co-Errances" exhibition

We love STF (Stephane Moscato)'s work. First and foremost because the french artist is ultra-talented and its compositions are ever so "wonderland" themed but also because the artist is a very nice guy with a humorist-sarcastic way of seeing things.

Once again, Gallery Guillaume Daeppen in Switzerland organise an exhibition "Co-Errances" (a word play between "co-errands" and "coherent") with a selection of canvases and works on book covers... Not unusual to paint and draw on book covers but STF does it in a superb manner, that somehow relates to the work of book binding craftsmanship. Moscato says that: "Two reasons why I use book covers as a support: texture is very similar to canvas but also books are linked to the transmission of knowledge, culture and imagination. A book is a symbol for science and wisdom".

If you live close to Bale in Switzerland, go and visit this super exhibition by STF.

French urban artist Zalez at Finearte Gallery

Some artists give much importance to the speech which comes along with their works whereas others privilege the object. Zalez belongs to the second category. At the beginning, Zalez wishes to follow a conventional way mainly in the idea to acquire school skills. He attended design school in Montpellier initially, then visual arts at Toulouse Fine Arts school. Very quickly, he felt wrongly understood, and criticized. Then he decided to go on his own. Thus, refusing for himself any compromise, Zalez prefers to let its works speak about itself.


















To carry out its canvas, Zalez uses the stencil again. As a "pochoirist "Zalez makes the difference by proposing a contemporary vision of his technique. Its canvas represents nude and lascivious women. Once again, he is lingering on the depiction of a certain female stereotype. The artist Intends to attract our attention by seizing the artificial image of the woman who is strongly depicted by the press and the advertisement. According to Zalez it is a modified and overrated image, which we ended up taking for model. The spectator leaves him seduced and shares the artist vision. He seems to tirelessly seek to appease a search, a phantasm.














Zalez's paintings are exhibited at the gallery from 20 May 2011.

Tiny Stencil on Ironmongery by Penny

Penny is one of the very talented street-stencil artists the U.K produces. The guy either create huge murals or very tiny stencils...One needs to understant the work behind cutting stencils to represent the amount of work behind his pieces.

We bought a few weeks ago a tiny stencil done on a piece of ironmongery... the result is superb and we are proud to display this at FineArte Gallery.