KELU ABSTRACT

Posted On: févr. 1, 2023

Categories: Gallery Artist

Kelu Abstract defines himself as an urban artist.

He was born in Lille in 1982, where he still lives and works.

An artist with a rock personality, committed, generous and demanding, his portraits are like him.

He began his urban rampage in 2017, laying down collages of portraits painted with acrylics and brushes. Later, his style would evolve towards the use of stencils. The curved paintings on the walls replaced the collaged posters of his early career.

He left his job as a specialist educator to devote himself entirely to his artistic project in 2020.

The faces exhibited by Kelu Abstract are always incisive, arousing the emotions of viewers without necessarily dictating a message. Her approach is to provoke intense exchanges of gaze between her painted characters, who are often androgynous, and the viewers. The impact of the gaze is fundamental to her work.

His work on canvas or in the studio is based on a correlation between the background, created using different media (paint, chalk, spray paint, crayons, markers, collage, etc.) and the stencilled character.