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 Often the figure, lying down or withdrawn, refers to a kind of main character, a protagonist around whom the surrounding elements are arranged and read, thus referring to the viewer's position, and the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 and metaphorize life and its beauty, its sometimes hard moments, and the often antagonistic emotions we go through at certain stages of life. Illness, fatherhood, love, sharing, the artist's life and isolation are just some of the themes addressed. The materiality of Adrien Fregosi's paintings alludes to those of his main inspirations, which share a certain poverty of resources, such as graffiti, fanzine culture, technical airbrush painting, the return to figurative painting of the 60's, and so on. The artist is particularly interested in so-called âignorantâ productions, in the margin of the institutionalized scenes - though not outsider art - and which constitutes minor influences within the established fields of creation. Marine Lang
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, le retour Ă la peinture figurative des annĂ©es 60âs, etc. 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. Marine Lang
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