RENAUD DELORME

Born in Marseilles in 1970, Renaud Delorme belongs to an ambitious and innovative group of French artists. His artistic fibre may well have been inherited, since his maternal ancestor, Adolphe Monticelli, was a precursor of French Impressionism. After studying visual arts at the renowned Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, Delorme's first solo and group exhibitions soon followed, in Paris, Antwerp and San Francisco among others. Today, his highly promising work is represented in numerous international collections and has won him several awards. What at first glance appears to be an optical illusion, turns out on closer inspection to be a sophisticated mosaic of shapes and colors. Renaud Delorme works at the crossroads of Pop art, recycling and digital graphics - a highly original synthesis of styles. The Well Organized Muses series is aptly named: Delorme deftly draws inspiration from the sublime hair styles of Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, then reproduces them with tennis balls, or recreates the fine face of Nastassja Kinski from computer chips and fragments of computer keyboards. In the digital age, this French artist prefers to work with objects. He explores new means of artistic expression aimed at treating image and matter on an equal footing.