Artist focus: Edouard Buzon

Artist focus: Edouard Buzon

from April 1, 2020

What a great journey we have made with Edouard Buzon, our artist discovered fifteen years ago, whose works have met with dazzling international success. This young French painter knows how to create a world of his own, mixing photography, painting and lacquer. Fascinated by the fruit of many years of research and work, we wanted to know more about what inspires him on a daily basis and his methods to transcribe his travels of the mind.

Photography inspires Edouard Buzon to start a work. Some places have left a deep impression on him, such as Barcelona for example, and its Olympic port district. "What I had been doing for a long time with my montages, I discovered it there in its raw state. Sometimes reality exceeds my fiction, at Coney Island I found myself face to face with fake palm trees with metal trunks. Paradox! Obviously I succumbed to the superannuated and glaucous charm of this 70s fun fair. It's a place that left a deep impression on me, an alternative place."

The painter then applies colours he makes himself from pigments. He organizes improbable encounters between visual elements that could not meet in real life, and integrates them into more abstract landscapes, orchestrated by flat areas of paint. "In order to finalize the work, I polish the surface of the works for weeks, layer after layer, to give them a special lacquer and shine that brings out the colours." For Edouard, his works are not meant to define a story, but to offer everyone a language to write their own story. The images are familiar but each one will take a different path to get there, and that is what drives him.

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