Cailles de luxe
L’ATTRAPE REVE

Cailles de luxe will launch the new issue of l’Attrape Rêve in Paris.

L’Attrape Rêve is an independent art publication published and distributed in Paris.
For the Paris stop of my last touring exhibition, the guys from l’Attrape Rêve came and made a cool video of the event (thank guys!).
On September 7th, they launch their new issue in a cool shop in Paris.
For this new issue, they asked the French artist Koa to take control of the publication.
More about l’Attrape-Rêve.

Front window of the Paris shop Cailles De Luxe

Front window of the Paris shop Cailles De Luxe

Black and white drawing by the French artist Koa

Black and white drawing by the French artist Koa

Promotional material for l'Attrape Reve

Promotional material for l’Attrape Rêve

Artwork by Koa in l'Attrape Reve

Artwork by Koa in l’Attrape Reve

Double spread page of the art fanzine

Double spread page of the art fanzine

SPOE
Interview with the French artist

Interview with Spoe, the French artist based in Biarritz, France.

Spoe is a French artist I know from Biarritz, a city located in the South of France where I was visiting my mother and brother (hi family!).
Among other things, Spoe is a photographer, graphic designer and new school surf shaper. You get it, the guy is cool.
More artworks by Spoe.

Spoe with one of his shaped surfboard

Spoe with one of his shaped surfboard

PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Paruite Tibo a.k.a SPOE, a freelance artist & graphic designer born in Paris and living in Biarritz (France). I come from the 90’s graffiti era, started working in the skateboard industry in 1999 before graduating from the art school L’ ESAHDAR in 2002.

Various screen-prints by Spoe

Various screen-prints by Spoe

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
Mixed media: i’m working on pictures (in the large sense of the word). It covers painting, sculpture, photography, urban ambitions, typesetting, layout. The media are various with a folk influence. The work gives a speech tinged with folk influences. The mass is crystallized between crisis and lightness, tip the happiness over the edge (editor’s note: yes, sometimes Spoe talks like an artist).

Artworks by the Biarritz-based artist Spoe

Artworks by the Biarritz-based artist Spoe

PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
Usually everything start with a photo i take (my camera is like a post-it for me, it’s where i keep my notes & things i saw, or people’s face i like). Then I draw the picture i like and add distortion & mechanical elements (i ‘m into it since i started industrial drawing in school). I’m into real painting action on 100x80cm media, and i love accumulation of geometrics and colors. Each picture has an story (personal or not). i’m also shaping surfboards in a new school way. No fins or rocker… This is a really creative research, more like graphic design, with rules but you can play with the lines and volume.

NYC mixed-media artwork

NYC mixed-media artwork

HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
Every morning I open my eyes with hunger to know more (ok almost every morning). I love to read old technical books, looking for new lines or new process… I guess my biggest influence is my education, the way I learned to do things and to see the world. I’m fatherless and one of my grandad was a painter, the other was a technical manager (in mechanic and electricity). I’m kind of a mix of them both. Recently i was working with Photography of a B-boy kid[/caption]

WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?

  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lichtenstein
  • Rosenquist
  • Jasper Johns
  • Gaugin
  • Micallef
  • P. Pasqua
  • C. Harrigton
  • M. Brockman
  • D.Carson
  • W. Klein
  • A. Rodchenko

and much more…

ANY LAST WORD?
To be continued… Search is on

Media coverage of the Longing To Be Knotted Together exhibition

Media coverage of the Longing To Be Knotted Together exhibition

My Longing To Be Knotted Together touring exhibition is almost over.
Some of you may still come to the Marseille show on September 8th, but I thought it was time to look back at the media coverage I received for the event.

Some of the articles from this media coverage are in English, other in Chinese language, other in Indonesian, and more.
It feels great to receive such and international reception for this art project and exhibitions I did around the world in 2011.

A good opportunity for me to thank all the magazines, blogs, and most importantly the people behind the medias.
Thank you. THANK YOU!!! (just in case you didn’t get it in lowercase).
I wanna thank all of those who showed me love and support all along this journey, cause it wouldn’t have been the same without you.
You can click on every image to know more about the mag or read the whole related article.
I know, internet is quite magical.
I’ll post some of the big interviews I’ve done for various magazines in special posts during the next weeks.
Stay tuned.

Click on the images bellow for more informations about the international media coverage of my 2011 touring exhibition.