GAEL DAVRINCHE
Gaël Davrinche is a French painter who was born in 1971. He lives and works in Montreuil. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (in 2000), and professor of contemporary drawing and painting at the Ateliers de Sèvres since 2007, he has since then pursued an international artistic career, participating in exhibitions in Europe (France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, Switzerland, etc.) as well as in Asia (China, Hong Kong, and South Korea).
Gaël Davrinche's prolific oeuvre, which is comprised of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints, primarily revives the traditional genres of portraiture and still life painting in a plastic dialogue that lies between tradition and the complete deconstruction of the latter. Indeed, the artist has relentlessly researched, explored, and drawn inspiration from the history of art in the works of his illustrious predecessors, which he believes is the very essence of painting. Frequently adopting a childlike approach to his work, he has produced humorous caricatural copies of masterpieces of European art as part of a marathon series entitled 'Les Revisités', which he began a dozen or so years ago and elements of which can still be seen in his current work.
