Artist, painter and ceramist, founder of the modeling agency Mannequin Madelaine, Cyril Debon's work is an exercise in eclecticism, in search of the best ways to evoke universal emotions such as love or melancholy. He develops his own imagery of Epinal where art history, children's books and B-movie archetypes are reconciled. His production crosses the register of artistic genres like a pawn on a goose board, necessarily passing through some traps.
Read MoreCyril Debon likes totemic characters: dachshunds, bats, frogs that sometimes find themselves on the outskirts of movable works, and sometimes wander around in their perfect animal independence. They play a hide-and-seek game in which visitors can participate in order to flush out the animals installed in incongruous places. The making of traps is part of his job: earthenware soaps, writing books with oblique lines, surprise pockets of works...
There is no art, he thinks, without a certain amount of jokes and puns. Here is, in short, the work of a real rascal, preoccupied in turn by his facetious maneuvers and by his own clumsiness.
—— Marilou ThieĢbault
Text courtesy Dumonteil Contemporary.
