Paris Sylvain – Landscape 1

Sylvain was Born in Charleville, France, in 1965. His painting career started in 1984 when he appeared as an artist who favoured drawing and cartoon composition as the most suitable form of expression. He reproduced images from the comic album Tintin, cut them into squares and assorted them into compositions of four. That quadruple form of modulated elements became a constant of his expression, drawing inspiration from genetics and Tarot cards. He explores the fusion of tradition and science as one of the important roles art can take. Paris has formal artistic education – he graduated from the Secondary School of Arts, College of Plastic Design and the Academy of Fine Arts (1995 MaJtriseMixted’ArtsPlastique – Universite VIII). In 2004 he launched “Innuitsiniswichi”, a conceptual project, or his alter ego – a figure representing different artistic practices such as photography, performance art, video, cartoons and publishing. He has exhibited his output in individual and group exhibitions in Luxembourg, Belgium, Turkey, Senegal, Berlin, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, New York and distinguished galleries in France – in Paris, Reims, Rouen, Juniville, Toulouse and Creteil. Sylvain has published several books of comics, received several studentships and artist-in-residence placements in France and abroad, as well as the City of Reims Award for young painters. His alter ego, recognisable by the face mask shaped as an elephant, comes to life in the films that are screen versions of his cartoons.