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Jérémie Baldocchi is a young artist of just 30 years. He soon lost interest in school to devote himself to drawing. Featuring a private from 16 years, he perfected his style ...
Today, he exhibited his paintings to people curious, fascinating and disproportionate.
This artist was kind enough to answer these questions:
Looking at your paintings, we see first of all the colors the patterns. You feel caught up in a colorful world, a world stained. Do you color brings more meaning to the picture that forms />
Although the colors are very important forms of my characters are, they obviously essential to my images. Some would say that just the bright colors I use to better accept the next "morbid" my characters. This may not be more wrong I think that I use to develop these tortured bodies.
And on reflection I think I try to show that whatever the color of the society around us the "ill-being that is within us" still exists and costs.
2 - Your characters have no head, no face. One might think that they have no identity. Is there a desire to go beyond the singularity, that is to say, the desire to make timeless body, almost undefined?
The human being, throughout his life, trying as best he can, to keep things they think have acquired.
Some try to perpetuate the youth of their body, others, well, a dream of eternal life.
I think an artist, more than any other, has the desire to exist and survive.
My characters are like us, they are not out of time but on the contrary they are trapped in a space-time. They are stuck in this tiny slice of life in the same way as a photograph.
Obviously for me the dedication is to continue my images so that they become timeless and therefore eternal but that only time will decide ...
3 - You seem to be attracted to the feminine. The roundness of the characters in point. You said in an interview that you might have loved you disguise (...)< br />
So the paint is it to you a change of identity?
Small clarification I was talking about costumes as a child and thus disguise.
It is true that I would have liked to be a woman but I feel very good as a boy and for the world I would not change.
By cons I am fascinated by transvestites both men and women is the fact of change of identity that I like the fact of changing its external image like this one is at the inside.
I am actually attracted to all that is rounded to demonstrate at home I have no wall at right angles.
Failure to represent almost exclusively for women is a way of living through them like a child telling stories with his toys.
4 - The body is at the heart of your paintings. This seems to be the main theme. The body design is subjective, expressive: Is there a philosophy of art in your body />
I will always remember one of the many remarks of Francis, the teacher to whom I owe so much.
During a group presentation of tables on a given theme I try to explain what I represented what I wanted to tell.
Then after having listened at length it is my understanding that we do not need all these elements and symbols in the picture. There is no point not to add humor to give strength or even a sense of the visual that my style is already steeped in character, my characters speak for themselves.
Since these words are echoes in my head. The body is therefore just unveiled by adding as little artifice as possible.
5 - Women are very present in your paintings. This clip is reminiscent of "My territory" of the group Grand Popo Football Club. Can you confirm this analogy />
I do not know anything about this clip before you tell me.
It depicts, in a playful way, the "ends" of woman's body, legs, mouths, breasts, which seem to live for themselves. The clip is really good, it is above all very silly.
Differently from the clip, my body are represented in full. While the heads are not represented physically but they are strongly present.
Men also are present or in the next room or in the heads of these women that seem to be well on their own.
6 - You said in an interview that "The corset, among other things, serves this purpose, beyond the fact that this is something typically feminine (to my regret)"
But today, some men wear corsets. Would you dare be a feminized male />
In fact I think the corset is a beautiful accessory used to deceive the eyes of people.
I find that women are very lucky, although for total parity between men and women I am not convinced that certain objects, clothes or "social codes" can accommodate everyone.
We will find in my paintings three types of gender, women, men and transvestites. But even if my body is not disproportionate men are feminized.
7 - You paint forms disproportionate.
Is there a desire to sublime, grandiose and exaggeration of yourself in your paintings? />
When I was a teenager I loved that they look at me, I loved being the center of the "world" but the time well and I left my place to showcase my art. It's all that matters now.
I do not try at all to put myself forward in my paintings, not far away. I regularly self-portraits but nothing more is just to show others what vision I have of me.
8 - Your inspiration comes it only on your personal experience? Apparently, once you suffer a weight problem. You have lost 40kg in 2 months. Such speed can change at all while the image of his own body and the report that it maintains.
Art is, for some artists, a projection of themselves, a kind of therapy.
But are you inspired by something other than yourself? />
Attention should not mix everything, I think my attraction to body deformed and dislocated started following my weight loss there to fifteen this year. Indeed having changed body in just 2 months I was deeply affected. My goal is not to perpetually directed this story. I'm thinking, as you said, a kind of "therapy".
I am inspired by many things, most of which feed my inspiration. Some, against surprise, are not there such as my taste for pictures or my religious status and collections of magic wands and those photos of pigeons crushed.
My life is not like all his scenes, I simply put things and I like the colors.
9 - In an audio interview, you said "want to be fat but appear thin socially."
Thinness, and more widely in appearance, is a major concern of people. Is there a release of yourself in your painting that could be likened to a fantasy of social integration />
The least we can say is that my painting is not socially integrated.
I'm not a very sociable. My world view, there is less than 10 years, was still rosy.
The sky was pink, there were rainbow ponies and magical flowers. I realize, as time goes by, it was an illusion, as if these layers of kindness, generosity and beauty, is painted on the dirt, peeling off soon.
10 - In a way, what you put on stage is ugly as exaggerated. It's a bit like Jerome Bosch. The shapes do not have that aesthetic character which is generally attributed to art.
Do you think the painting should go beyond the notion of beauty? What is the "beautiful" to you? />
This is a question, my time, very interesting, but unfortunately I have no answer.
Beauty is so subjective. Each of us has a different vision so unique to each.
Some will be attracted to a certain type of shapes or shades of color that others will hate it. It is precisely this that fascinates me, the fact that the world around us is not reflected in the same way in all of us. I have to wonder, suddenly, you see how my painting? Do you see the same thing as me?
11 - How would you describe your art: Naive? Surreal? Pop art? Avant-garde
At one time I was fascinated by the current "Bauhaus". I found it incredible that school alone can cause a current that would revolutionize a lot of artistic principles.
Each of the currents through the generations, has brought something new.
The most 'futuristic', perhaps, for the time were the currents Dadaist and Surrealist.
I never really managed to position my work in any category.
Yet I did not invent anything! Let time do it ...
Interview by Bérangère B
in August 2010
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El artista francés Jéremie Baldocchi está a punto de estrenarse en España. Y lo hará este mismo domingo día 8 al mediodía en pleno cogollo de su capital. En ese espacio de arte (y compras) llamado Espora y situado en el número 35 de la castiza calle de Embajadores. Si no estás en la capital ese día, tienes hasta el 6 de diciembre para pasarte.
La exposición, nos cuentan, versará sobre lo cotidiano. Sobre una normalidad de la que, sin embargo, Baldocchi enfatiza su aspecto más incoherente. Ese que nos lleva a comportarnos no como somos, sino como queremos que nos vean los otros. Y que nos lleva a sentirnos incómodos delante lo socialmente no aceptado, de aquello que no cumple los criterios de perfección y belleza establecidos.
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On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Fnac Forum invites the artist Jeremiah Baldocchi celebrating itself 10 years of exhibitions in our walls. Indeed it was in 1999 that allows fnac forum to present the very first time. In faithful partner, we propose to put the now famous green jacket employees 30 celebrities, stars real or imagined ...
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this book that lists our moments of happiness and our day.
Booklet that when I have simple pleasures and little problems I write it.
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Here is a curious book between diary and poetry, written entirely by an extraordinary artist: Jérémie Baldocchi.
Jeremiah made a beautiful work with fragments of his life: photos, pictures, texts, questions and feelings ... Both near and far away from the boy to take us into his world, a epuplé quotidient fantastic. A very nice layout and design make this very enjoyable book an especially valuable object, you might want to offer to share, to keep to ourselves and give some of you the desire to create Tender your own worries ...
A gift for the holidays ...
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This book has a family resemblance in delivering our pleasant or unpleasant moment of daily life, lesréfléxions that can be asked: Making a recipe as in the photo, to sleep in clean sheets, the elastic relaxed a sock, wear the same dress as another person, remove his shoes in the afternoon, the scent of Monoi or any other cream that remind us of the holidays .... In the end ifyou have liked Amélie, you'll love this book.
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It is by opening a bag of cookies crumbled as the artist Jeremiah Baldocchi had the idea to list in a notebook small hassle and pleasure of everyday life. In this first category can be found: "tidy object if we do not know where" or "bite foil."
In the second, "remove his shoes in the afternoon", "to sleep in clean sheets", etc.. The artist has illustrated with photos and Tablets.
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Its forms are curious, bright colors are fun, its universe has the look fantastic and dreamlike: Jérémie Baldocchi is a painter and it is difficult to classify what makes it charme.Aprés the publication of a book and several exhibitions, he can see his work at the Fnac Forum des Halles and permanently to the bookstore La Hune Brenner.
He worked on the recement th ^ th of sin and gives out his personal vision of the seven deadly sins, compounded of his paintings from GYMNASTICS body and soul.
Between painting and comics, his paintings have a freshness that Pernet to forget the harsh world around us.
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Jeremiah is a rising figure of peintuer. They offers original creations in an exhibition with the evocative title "Paradise on earth"
"colors, a simple blue, soft pink, violet and a heady imagination is there.
This imaginary child who looks with malice scenes as simple and harmless for us to offer them in colors, to get us out of neutral.
the characters are fleshy and generous opulence that lulls us as a hand rassurante.Les every detail of his paintings are all magic and there is nothing to is left to a hazard.Jetez oeuil basically on the sides and dwell there as you saw it, this time he lived.
They walk in its beautiful gardens , cooking meals at her aunt's Eve, always with emotion, always with modesty, even when the bodies are naked, blade remains full, rich and strong.
As a candy, it would keep his paintings in the mouth, the taste longer.
board, by moving away, close your eyes for a moment, as they call a fairy, or that one prays a star, return colors and shapes his characters take on their knees knock and paunchy bellies, there will arise a story: yours"
Aude Réant
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the release of his book "Body and Soul" exhibition of paintings by Jérémie Baldocchi that illustrate this book and other works on "Sins, Offences and impertinence.
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Jeremie We walk in wonderful gardens, the kitchen of her aunt's Eve dinner with magic, passion and emotion.
So look good and the images will be born a poetic story: yours.
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January 7 to February 3, Jérémie Baldocchi you into his world.
The works of this young artist, skilled alchemy of realism and imagination, invite you to find a poetic universe where the characters without head, genuine brand, will offer a welcome breath after the mad rush to Christmas .
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delicate works Jérémie Baldocchi and funny storytelling animals who love each other, kitchens lined with cream cakes, hair salons ... exuberant
The universe is made of his paintings of toys and stuffed animals, big cats, caring, multicolored butterflies, fairies ...
With charming details, using the colors of happiness and childhood, the young artist depicts, in cozy interior, a life that combines the wonderful and tenderness.