Fabien Adèle
Fabien Adèle
Adèle studied art history and design at Sorbonne University in Paris, a city he now lives. Since, he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Almine Rech in Paris, Mine Project Gallery, Hong Kong, and Samuele Visentin in London. His work is currently in the permanent collection of X Museum, Beijing.
Fabien Adèle’s environments ask you to step in; to take the role of subject, to see what they see, and interpret their feelings in a way that relates to us. The figures are painted from behind, or partially concealed, allowing us as the viewer to take on this role.
It was Adèle’s mother who first taught the French artist to paint. Today, his works carry with them a waft of nostalgia where memory and the sensitivity of experiences seep into every stroke.
Surrealism becomes the undercurrent of these unconscious renderings; each frame imposed with a litany of puzzling objects—many perfidious in scale—that, more often than not, are rendered in a rose-tinted glow.
Fabien Adèle’s environments ask you to step in; to take the role of subject, to see what they see, and interpret their feelings in a way that relates to us. The figures are painted from behind, or partially concealed, allowing us as the viewer to take on this role.
It was Adèle’s mother who first taught the French artist to paint. Today, his works carry with them a waft of nostalgia where memory and the sensitivity of experiences seep into every stroke.
Surrealism becomes the undercurrent of these unconscious renderings; each frame imposed with a litany of puzzling objects—many perfidious in scale—that, more often than not, are rendered in a rose-tinted glow.