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Not So Royal is the first art piece of my "Playing Cards' series". The art piece displays a genealogical tree on four generations, over a natural landscape with a castle. Here, you can see the so called eight quarters of Cesar, king of Diamonds (in French, César, roi de Carreau). And we discover his genealogy is after all not as royal as you might have imagined: only his father line is royal, all the rest of ancestors are mere servants. I enjoy the card figures and they can tell you a lot of stories if you just observe them. There is a full mixture in Cesar's forefathers, where you can spot people from different kingdoms: Hearts, Spades or Clubs... The kings of Diamonds practice here full exogamy, on a national and a social level as well. This is exactly the now widespread situation among royals nowadays, with the societal changes... The landscape beneath, made with pencils, is treated in a childlike way, to emphasize the still widespread fairy tale effect of the (not so) royal genealogy displayed. The world has changed a lot, and kings are just as human as everyone else today most of the time, but childrens' litterary and historical references still go back to princes, princesses and castles, and it remains so until a later age in our collective psyche.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:World Culture
Materials:Paper
Styles:ConceptualFigurativeFine Art
Mediums:PaperPaintBallpoint PenPencil
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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I am a French and Polish artist, born in Paris in 1972. Coming from a family of artists (my mother Julita is a sculptor, my sister Gabrielle a painter, my brother Pierre a music composer...) I've expressed myself in my childhood mainly through drawing. Then for many years I dropped art totally and went into studies and work, to realise a few years back I cannot live without creating. A peak time is my New York experience for a few month in 2008, where I briefly just plunged into creation, before coming back to what had become my normal everyday life... After that, this urge for creation has grown on me progressively until a recent making out in 2011, when returning from a very enriching experience as a plumber in Bangladesh slums, where I had spent about a year and a half... Quite lost at my return home, I can say I slowly came back to myself only through art. The action of sculpting was a highly restructuring experience to me.It rebuilt me and gave a new meaning to my life. Since then, I've been creating and considering myself as an artist. In the meantime I got married and am a father of adorable twin boys, born in 2016. With this parenthood experience my creation has necessarily evolved, I considered myself primarily as a sculptor, but with restricted time and access to my clay workshop in Touraine I had much frustration. Hence my latest sculpture projects with various materials including recyclables and rubbish, my recent return to drawing, my discovery of collage and also painting to a lesser extent. Today, another page will be turned with our installation mid 2017 in a new house in Saint Cloud, near Paris, with the possibility of having a workshop at home, and generally more space and more time dedicated to creation.
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