Discover the contemporary work of Aldicius

Aldicius was born in the 1990s to 1990s Montpellier, of a Senegalese mother and a French father. He grew up throughout his childhood, surrounded by of his parents and his two brothers, in a small village in Occitanie.

Reluctant to authority, he will be a failure throughout his schooling, spending most of his time at work. draw. As a teenager, he escaped by running a comic blog where he he will recount his daily life and share his states of mind, his introspections as well as his first graphic experiments. After failing After his baccalaureate, he left for several months to study. New York for what he considers a major initiatory journey. It was there that he chose the name Aldicius, happy to be able to move away from his birth name in which he never recognized himself.

Starting from his personal experience to talk about the world, his work combines writing and drawing to question identity, consciousness or even the passing of time... As he says -even, there is nothing more universal than the I.

I think everyone has a story. I try, through my writings and my drawings, to tell mine. I am only a passerby, an observer, a chronicler of my own existence. A perspective on the rich world around me and the stories that populate it. I write what I can't draw, I draw what I can't write.

My palette of tools is large but has no importance for me: pen, brush, felt-tip pen or digital tablet, whatever! What matters to me is the right emotion. I'm just looking to find out more. photograph my impressions, as faithfully as possible, without artifice; for this reason, I work mainly without sketching, at a glance. hand raised.

My graphic inspirations are mainly from; find on the side of comics, in which I was immersed throughout my childhood. I mainly draw characters (humans, animals or often a mix of the two) or landscapes, always with the idea of transmitting a movement, an emotion, an emotion. fleeting spark...