Discover the contemporary work of SEB VODOPIVITZ
Painter and musician, Sébastien Chevalier explores many artistic fields, combining a reflection on abstract painting with sound experiments. Through painting, engraving, drawing or sculpture, the artist freely seeks to renew form and material, inscribing himself in a deliberately playful approach. Based on a plastic vocabulary from childhood schemas, his dreamlike installations mix figure and sound.
A graduate of plastic arts, Seb Vodopivitz, better known under the pseudonym Petit Vodo, lives and works in Bordeaux and has been traveling in Europe for over twenty years the search for a modern definition of blues music while developing his work around contemporary painting and installation.
Having left at the end of the 80s to study plastic arts at the University of Paris I, he very early on began to reflect on the intimate relationships between the arts. At the end of his studies he lived six months in Tuscany, fascinated by the artistic effervescence of the region, copying the great masters of the Quatroccento. On his return, he was hired as a lecturer at the CAPC in Bordeaux under the direction of Jean Louis Froment in the early 90s, then at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. There he met the Franco-Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz and worked on the retrospective of Marcel Broodtaers and Max Ernst at the Centre Georges Pompidou / Musée National d'Art Moderne. These experiences would nourish and influence a large part of his production.
In 2006 he composed the music for "Heroes", a contemporary dance piece by the choreographer Emmanuel Huyhn and worked as a composer in residence for over a year at the CNDC Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers.
For over ten years, the artist has been teaching visual arts and collaborating on multiple artistic projects in France. Regularly publishing records and touring the scenes of France, exhibiting his pictorial works in various galleries and contemporary art centers.
www.sebastienchevalier.com
Through various formats of canvases, drawings and engravings, my work explores the ever-questioning dialogue between deep space and flatness, between form and color. Nourished by years of research and insights into the history of art, I seek to reinvent my own pictorial gestures in the space in which they are inscribed and in a constantly renewed playful exploration of the act of painting.
