Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Malo Chapuy – Saint Nicolas sauvant les naufragés, 2024 ; Autoportrait au moustique, 2024 ; Adoration aux châteaux d’eau, 2024
2024
Saint Nicolas sauvant les naufragés, 2024
Gold, silver, tempera on wood, frame by the artist
Autoportrait au moustique, 2024
Gold, silver, tempera on wood, frame by the artist
Adoration aux châteaux d’eau, 2024
Tempera on wood, frame by the artist
Born in 1995 in Laon, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Malo Chapuy draws his inspiration from the old masters, making images and objects using the medieval techniques of tempera and gilding on wood. With a fondness for anachronisms, Chapuy also embraces other types of material, such as motorbike helmets and designer sneakers, which he transforms into modern relics. Using pictorial compositions from the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods as a starting point, he makes modifications. In this kind of way, Malo Chapuy works with time warps, employing a wealth of artistic quotations and creating playful links between religious episodes and contemporary events.
In resonance with the medical and sacred history of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu, Malo Chapuy’s works explore current health and ecological crises through biblical narratives. In an age of global warming, wind turbines are inserted into the background of a miracle scene inspired by Giovanni di Paolo, and water towers are inserted behind an Adoration. At once dystopian and apocalyptic, Malo Chapuy’s image-objects use techniques and compositions from the past to explore the future of our planet.
Saint Nicolas sauvant les naufragés, 2024
Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier, Paris. Collection Poma
Autoportrait au moustique, 2024
Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier, Paris. Collection Kirsten Schrick
Adoration aux châteaux d’eau, 2024
Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier, Paris. Collection Baume
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