Sultana represents the estate of Adrien Fregosi âĄ
Adrien Fregosi's paintings are often large-scale, depicting scenes in which several people or objects interact, somewhere between genre painting - in terms of the symbolic significance of the elements - and comic strips - in terms of the effectiveness of the narrative.
Often the figure, lying down or withdrawn, refers to a kind of main character, a protagonist around whom the surrounding elements are arranged and read, thus referring to the viewer's position, and the artist's actual self-portrait.
The scenes painted by Adrien Fregosi celebrate life and its beauty, also its hardest moments, and the often antagonistic emotions we can experience. Illness, fatherhood, love, togetherness, being an artist and isolation are as many themes addressed.
The materiality of Adrien Fregosi's paintings alludes to his main inspirations, such as graffiti, fanzine culture, technical airbrush painting and the return to 1960s figurative painting.
The artist is particularly interested in productions at the margins - though neither falling under the term outsider art nor Art brut - and which constitutes minor influences within the established fields of creation.
Souvent de grands formats, les oeuvres peintes dâAdrien Fregosi donnent Ă voir des scĂšnes oĂč plusieurs personnes ou objets interagissent, entre peinture de genre pour la portĂ©e symbolique des Ă©lĂ©ments qui les composent et bande dessinĂ©e, pour lâefficacitĂ© du traitement de la narration.
Souvent, on peut y voir une figure couchĂ©e, ou dans une position fermĂ©e, qui renvoie Ă une sorte de personnage principal, Ă la fois protagoniste autour duquel les Ă©lĂ©ments alentours sont agencĂ©s et lus, renvoyant donc Ă la position du spectateur, et autoportrait rĂ©el de lâartiste.
Les scĂšnes quâAdrien Fregosi peint cĂ©lĂšbrent et mĂ©taphorisent la vie et sa beautĂ©, ses moments durs parfois, et les Ă©motions souvent antagonistes que lâon traverse Ă certains stades de lâexistence.
Maladie, paternitĂ©, amour, partage, vie dâartiste, isolement, sont autant de thĂšmes abordĂ©s.
La matĂ©rialitĂ© des peintures dâAdrien Fregosi fait rĂ©fĂ©rence Ă celles de ses inspirations principales, qui ont en commun une certaine pauvretĂ© des ressources utilisĂ©es, comme le graffiti, la culture fanzine, la peinture technique Ă lâaĂ©rographe ou encore le retour Ă la peinture figurative des annĂ©es 60.
Lâartiste sâintĂ©resse de prĂšs aux productions dites « ignorantes », en marge des scĂšnes institutionnalisĂ©es â sans pour autant relevĂ©es de lâart outsider ou brut â et qui constituent bien sĂ»r des influences minoritaires pour les grands domaines de crĂ©ation reconnus.
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