Vincent Abadie Hafez – “Inside Job” – Decembre 15, 2011 > January 20, 2012 – Casablanca
David Bloch Gallery Casablanca presents the solo exhibition of Vincent Abadie Hafez from December 15, 2011 to January 15, 2012 which will included new works on canvas, paper and metal.
The opening will take place thursday December 15, in the presence of the artist.
Approach:
Cosmopolitan, the work of Vincent Abadie Hafez is the result of crossbreeding of several cultures.
By 1988 under the pseudonym Zepha that he invests in the graffiti movement. It is a suburb of Paris that he began to impose his name and his team,since he will not stop…
He take place of public space and hustles certain visual habits:
Just like a word written on the sand, his art is ephemeral and accessible to all.
Vincent Abadie Hafez developed a visual language and a universe in which intersect the craftsmanship of ancient civilizations,
the movement of free Figuration, Abstraction lyrical and street art. Aesthetics at the intersection of two worlds, ancient and modern, revealing a balance of instinctive feature and reflected composition in which the cosmic space collide with the small infinitely .
the hybrid configurations reveal various aspects, mixing mediums and crossbreeding techniques … Giving Anthropomorphic totems in two dimensions, worn by erosion on which appear traces, signs and symbols calligraphic. A breath graphic composed of wild forms inhabited of a rebellious energy, which highlights an inherent order to balance the universe, and reflected even in a supposed chaos.
Contrasts, oppositions and complementarity enrich a production of works produced in multiple formats, worn by time, memory carriers, the result of a questioning of this world seem to forget the very principles of its existence …
Statement of intent:
“Influenced earlier by the prehistoric rock performances, is later, and naturally that I take part in the development of the graffiti movement in the end of 80s. Over time, my approach has been enriched with inspiration from artistic movement as lyrical abstraction (informal art with G. Mathieu, H. Hartung, J. Degottex, Jay Defeo, G.Titus Caramel) and also of the free figuration as the influences of the premier art, writing and art of ancient civilizations.
My art is at the crossroads of the ancient written submissions and a graphical language “modern” based on an intimate relationship with the media, seeking a balance between the instinctive and thoughtful composition.
A range of technique and medium ranging from graffiti,going through calligraphy and engraving, allows me to highlight questioning about humanity to her origins in a common movement.
Currently through a search on the “matrix”, as fundamental to the work of engraving and more particularly “strong water” I put forward work on the trace, the footprint (the moral sens / physical) who brings a questioning of human action and its consequences.
Finally, the idea of tampering her start and her end, based on the ancient concept of cyclology, movement of time and of the famously phrase attributed but falsely to Lavoisier originally stated by Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything changes.” Suggesting the fragility of the material with respect to time, includes all of this research. “
Vincent Abadie Hafez