Discover the contemporary work of Alexandre Musso
Né in 1972 in Marseille the artist has been painting classic subjects since childhood, but it was at the beginning of the nineties to At the dawn of his twenties, the stylistic turning point occurred. He then painted frenziedly and exhibited extensively. l’Espace Julien (Café Julien) in Marseilles. Then he paused his pure artistic production to turn to a career as a graphic designer and illustrator.
He moved to Brittany in 1997 to live in Brittany. Rennes then moved to Finistère in 2006, created and developed a street-wear clothing brand and converted to tattooing in 2013 to finally return to a freer form of expression in ; through linocut in 2020.
It’s the occasion of the opening of its workshop in 2021 at Quimper that he fervently relaunches the production of his frank and dynamic line work and returns to large formats in drawings and paintings.
The work explores the spontaneity of life. of the moment of creation. Stay as close as possible to the initial sketch to conserve the energy that is essential to the work. him at the moment when he designs his projects.
Its sensitivity goes to the founding myths, to the symbols which cross the ages, cultures and societies. A digested heritage in our daily lives. We also find in his works subjects borrowed from nature as in the series « Algae » or the « 13 roosters » following an invisible thread which intertwines until it reaches the Demeter, ancient mother of nature. Part of his work uses the female model, an enigmatic, hypnotic and inexhaustible source of inspiration.
This pursuit often takes him to the limits of abstraction, but he remains a figurative artist.
The formats depend quite a lot on the techniques, small formats in engraving, drawings and paintings in medium and large formats. It is with a deep respect for the support and the material that he works, but constantly experiments with the possibilities of the tool technique. its disposition without the constraint of « tradition ».
The artist’s wish is to share the simple and direct joy he feels in life. produce and live among his creations.
