SOMEWHERE
The serie SOMEWHERE seems, in contrast, to be a more emotionally neutral area of graphic research. The artist takes on images of interiors without any characters, but rich in architectural details or anecdotal accessories - a church arch, a bourgeois salon, a cluttered shop - to completely deconstruct the surface using splashes of bright color, attenuating brush-strokes, of textured overlays. But this neutrality is only apparent: a place is no more neutral than a human figure, especially for an artist who has long invested in the field of interior architecture and design. The colorful vandalism of this series, which is sometimes akin to "tagging" in its use of spray paint and neon colors, is perfectly in line with his work on the CLASSICO and the HUMANS series: breathing new life into fragments of reality that are under threat of becoming atrophied in the image, whether famous figures, anonymous faces, or places shaped by the human hand.