Born in 1963 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Lives and works in Paris and Vendôme, France
Sans titre, sans date
Drawing.
Jeune garçon trans, 2019
Drawing, watercolour, pencil.
Sans titre, sans date
Drawing.
Sans titre, sans date
Drawing.
Mes amours blessés, 2020
Watercolour, acrylic and pencil on paper
Jeune enfant, 2020
Watercolour, acrylic and pencil on paper
Automne, 2020
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Sans titre, sans date
Drawing.
Voyage en solitaire, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
Cendrillon taille bien la taille d’un pitbull, 2022
Polyester resin and transparent resin
Colargol is not dead, 2020
Paint, watercolour, pencil and ink on paper.
Edi Dubien’s work explores the social, psychological and emotional constructs of the individual, which are sometimes at odds with conventional discourse and imposed patterns of life. His drawings and watercolours conjure up images of flora and fauna and depict people — from childhood to adulthood — reduced to silence by the violence of a society that respects neither difference nor the environment. Edi Dubien’s work is a sensitive dialogue between humans and nature. It invites the viewer to recognise the importance of accepting our own difference and showing respect for others.
Echoing his own personal story, Edi Dubien’s drawing evokes the love of nature and animals that enabled him to escape problems to do with identity and gender assignment that he faced as a child. In his depictions of the faces of children, adolescents and animals in make-up or adorned with jewellery, often made from plants, the artist suggests benevolently and tenderly the possibility of a new harmony with the living world. Blending humour and melancholy, he evokes the fragility of life itself through the presence of skulls, sometimes huge, sometimes reduced to the size of an earring.
Ville de Lyon / Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Colargol is not dead, 2020 : Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Alain Gutharc
Artiste également présent aux Grandes Locos - Station de métro B – Gare Part-Dieu
Discover also
- Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Alix Boillot – L’Éternité (2), 2024 ; Lacrymatoires, 2024 ; L’Éternité (1) (collier), 2024
Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal – Département du Rhône
- Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Delphine Balley – Charivari, 2016
Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal – Département du Rhône
- Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Alix Boillot – Grace, 2023
Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal – Département du Rhône
- Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Delphine Balley – Paysage de sel, pierre et ombres, 2021 ; Cérémonie, le vase, 2021 ; Cérémonie, les kakis, 2021 ; Cérémonie, l’image, 2021
Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal – Département du Rhône