Oil Painting and Graffiti
It was primarily through graffiti that the artist Blaise entered the world of art. He discovered graffiti in France through mysterious stories that have now become legends, such as the Stalingrad terrains. Blaise recounts this story in the SOFRESH podcast.
Today, Blaise blends different skills and influences. Two art workshops coexist. Oil painting becomes the art he loves to master—first outdoors, then in his first studio. Abstract art inspired by graffiti constitutes the second.
Losing his letters and finding taste
His abstract art draws from graffiti but does not take its name. Where graffiti stops, street art begins. Graffiti focuses on the art of letters and signatures. Blaise's work here is graffiti that has lost its letters: the gesture becomes the master, color its valet.
This abstract work becomes a message. Blaise recounts his incomprehension, even his rejection, of abstract art. Then comes the confrontation: an exhibition on Pierre Soulages' inks that shook and impacted him. The artist then moved from ignorance to curiosity. This is how his works opened up to new influences, highlighting the importance of the artistic world: to invite questioning, to change.
The street artist's candle
Blaise's candle tells this story: that of the gesture above all, but also of curiosity, of encountering the unknown, of the evolution of thoughts, and of the importance of art in society.
