Adrien Fregosi

1980, Échirolles — 2024, Sùte

Sultana represents the estate of Adrien Fregosi ♡

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Often the figure, lying down or withdrawn, refers to a kind of main character, a protagonist around whom the surrounding elements are arranged and read, thus referring to the viewer's position, and the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 d’Adrien 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 l’efficacitĂ© 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 l’artiste.

Les scĂšnes qu’Adrien Fregosi peint cĂ©lĂšbrent et mĂ©taphorisent la vie et sa beautĂ©, ses moments durs parfois, et les Ă©motions souvent antagonistes que l’on traverse Ă  certains stades de l’existence.
Maladie, paternitĂ©, amour, partage, vie d’artiste, isolement, sont autant de thĂšmes abordĂ©s.

La matĂ©rialitĂ© des peintures d’Adrien 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  l’aĂ©rographe ou encore le retour Ă  la peinture figurative des annĂ©es 60.

L’artiste s’intĂ©resse de prĂšs aux productions dites « ignorantes », en marge des scĂšnes institutionnalisĂ©es – sans pour autant relevĂ©es de l’art outsider ou brut – et qui constituent bien sĂ»r des influences minoritaires pour les grands domaines de crĂ©ation reconnus.

Marine Lang

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Apr 26 – Jun 14, 2025

À un passantSultana, Paris, FRSolo show
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Jun 29 – Jul 31, 2024

đŸ„čđŸ„čđŸ„čSultana Summer Set, Arles, FRGroup show with KĂ©vin Blinderman, Jean Claracq, Ash Love, Paul Maheke, Olivier Millagou, Charlemagne Palestine, BenoĂźt PiĂ©ron, Gal Schindler, P Staff, NantĂ©nĂ© TraorĂ© and Sophie Varin
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Nov 2, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

SONO ANDATISultana, Paris, FRDuo show with Kévin Blinderman
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Sep 23 – Nov 12, 2022

Peintures barbaresLieu Commun, Toulouse, FRGroup show with Debby Barthoux, Morgane Bertrande, Julien Bouillon, Catherine Branger, Tatiana Defraine, Jean Denant, Noël Dolla, Mickaël Duval, Valérie du Chéné et Régis Pinault, Philippe Fangeaux, Pierre Fisher, Thibault Gaudry, Philippe Hortala, Chad Keveny, Rebecca Konforti, Sam Krack, Jeanne Lacombe, Maurane Leder, Alex Less, Valéry Lorenzo, Arnaud Loumeau, Mathilda Marque Bouaret, Lori Marsala, Sarah Melen, Nicolas Milhé, Marion Mounic, Frédéric Périmon, Marianne Plo, Manuel Pomar, PacÎme Ricciardi, Guilhem Roubichou, Romain Ruiz-Pacouret, Katharina Schmidt, Emmanuel Simon, Cédric Teisseire, Tilt, Jeanne Tzaut, Béatrice Utrilla, Christian Vialard and Marie Zawieja
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Oct 2, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022

SOL ! La biennale du territoireMO.CO PanacĂ©e, Montpellier, FRGroup show with Becquemin and Sagot, Aldo Biascamano, Fabien Boitard, Elsa BrĂšs, Charlotte Caragliu, Julien Cassignol, Lise Chevalier, Anne-Lise Coste, Agathe David, Daniel Dezeuze, Élisa Fantozzi, Margaux Fontaine, Pablo Garcia, JoĂ«lle Gay, Marie Havel, GĂ©rard Lattier, Mohamed Lekleti, Émilie Losch, Audrey Martin, GanaĂ«lle Maury, ClĂ©ment Philippe, AurĂ©lie Piau, Anne Pons, Guillaume Poulain, Pierre Tilman, Natsuko Uchino, Pierre Unal-Brunet, GaĂ©tan Vaguelsy, Claude Viallat and Carmelo Zagari
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Apr 11 – Apr 29, 2023

Soft TouchSultana Summer Set, Arles, FRGroup show with Anne Lise Coste, Apolonia Sokol, Benoßt Piéron, Celia Hempton, Dora Jeridi, François Curlet, Gaby Sahhar, Gal Schindler, Georges Bru, Jean Claracq, Jesse Darling, Larry Stanton, Maëlle Ledauphin, Manuel Solano, Matthias Garcia, Olivier Millagou, Paul Maheke, Pia Camil, Sophie Varin, Susie Green and Valentin Ranger
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