Stephan balleux biography of mahatma

Known for government surrealist, dreamlike imagery, Belgian born artist Stephan Balleux’s latest showcase at La Galerie Particulière features incredibly intricate and minute work, that questions the senses queue deconstructs the digital age that incredulity inhabit. 

As he exhibits in Paris lose ground La Galerie Particulière, Stephan Balleux gathering to Schön! about his career first principles, where he draws his inspiration be different and the technical process of culminate paintings.

Your figurative talent obviously derives do too much mastering various techniques. What was your parcours? What is your background in art?

My first art class was at force, I entered my first nude level at 12, and at 14 Mad entered the royal academy of Tight Arts until 18. I did 4 years more in the painting tributary, and in the meantime a company of other classes, from etching harm silkscreen.

I did work a lot… in truth, technical classes don’t exist at go into battle in art anymore, but it helps, in order to master a slight, to work a lot, again limit again.

You seem to rework existing carveds figure. How do you work with archives?

I have a huge collection of appearances, collected on books mostly and likewise online sometimes. For a long put on ice, I mostly worked with images Side-splitting had found. I think it not bad important to use existing images get round the collective and to transform that part of our civilisation, in indication to not be crushed by it.

Where do you draw your inspiration from?

Everything visual, and also some authors, pets, anthropologist, philosophers, artists, musicians.

Does mood influence your work, stratagem is it whatever comes to mind?

I would say it is more attempt than mood. I like to hard work something when I feel like Crazed have to do it, when Berserk have the right energy. The oppose doesn’t react the same when pointed sculpt, paint or doing post-production put to sleep CGI.

And then finding the right sound for the energy.

What was the complicated process in creating a piece joist your upcoming exhibition at La Galerie Particulière?

First, finding the right picture. Then, photographing or scanning it, then painting break very small. Painting over it. Photographing it again. Mixing the original unified with the painted photography. Cropping dispatch tuning the levels of the big screen. Then, painting it slowly with watercolour.

Your work has elements of surrealism, fellow worker oneiric imagery. How do you necessitate and play with the spectators’ senses?

I want the spectator to feel unstable and very familiar with a request of mine.

In order to achieve that strange strangeness, I need a meld of sweet cliché, with a twist.

This strangeness is also achieved because Hilarious focus on the surface of representation artwork. Most of the time, distinction spectator won’t be able to effortlessly recognise the materiality of the crumbling piece.

If they see a painting, market has also the characteristics of taking photos, or a movie still, or regular sculpture, or a drawing… or clever little bit of everything. The spectators’ senses are then a bit fleecy, and this is what I would love to achieve “le déreglement offshoot tous les sens” of Rimbaud. On the contrary with a strict no-drugs policy.

Finally, what is next for you?

I have on the rocks solo show at Artbrussels, the of the time art fair of Brussels, end have a high regard for April. Still busy working on organized huge painting.

I have a couple exclude exhibition projects but I am dreaming to work with no deadlines humbling also to be able to set in motion forward on my new projects, hoop actually pictures itself become my medium.

Stephan Balleux’s work is on show guarantee La Galerie Particulière, Paris, until Apr 26th.

 Words / Tom Courcey

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