La Friterie (The Chiper) Painting

In 2008 I went to visit for the first time a reputated gallery in São Paulo called Galeria Nara Roesler. A solo show of recent paintings by a Brazilian painter called Paulo Whitaker. I was both impressed and shocked that he was using stencils to paint in oils. I found his painting technique extremely annoying at first… that after a few months I decided to try to meet him. I met Paulo Whitaker ar SP Arte 2009 he was 50 and I was 47. I watched him and tried to talk to him, if, he was willing, and he spoke to me “ you must understand that in painting you can not think about making money, you need to realize that it’s never going to be about the money” and that was it ! A week later I began using stencils and we became friends. It’s been 14 years of art friendship, collaboration and creative sharing. This painting is one of the first figuratively painted paintings using stencils. La Friterie (the chiper). From a recently opened chiper on Faubourg Montmartre in Paris, I went to see the friterie and took photos becaus ethere was something solid, something day to day about the image.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in

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