BIOGRAPHY
I am a French artist, born in 1969 in northern France. A musician and guitarist, I am also a singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, with a degree from the Centre des Musiques Actuelles (CMA) in Valenciennes. I also hold a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature.
Over time, I made my living through music, working as a music instructor and workshop leader in schools, cultural institutions and community arts programs, before eventually “crashing my life,” going through chaos, multiplying my demons — and then having to kill them off, one by one — until I eventually returned to drawing, sketching and capturing, almost like an epic fresco, the frenzy of the world around us.I am, essentially, a self-taught artist.
I describe my approach as “drawing-painting”: a raw, instinctive practice that observes the world in order to distort it. I take fragments from reality, caricature them, transform them and reassemble them until they lose their obviousness.
Are we even real in this world?
Between music, painting and personal experience, my work seeks less to represent reality than to reveal another one.
Vin-Monroe, my alter ego, accompanies me through this journey: a free and instinctive character, sometimes a fallen angel, who refuses rules and would rather choose illusion over morality.
For me, creation is a way of moving through the darker zones and rebuilding. Vin-Monroe, this musical alter ego, was born from that process. Music and painting have therefore become two different ways of looking at the world otherwise.
Artist Statement
“Since we are nothing, let us at least be extraordinary in the way we are nothing.”
CV
Artist CV
Education & Training
Baccalauréat Littéraire — French Literary Baccalaureate.
Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature.
Professional Music Degree — Centre des Musiques Actuelles (CMA), Valenciennes, France. Awarded following examination by an international jury of recognized professional musicians.
Professional Experience / with Laurent Roubach at Paris _ concerts & Radio Europe1
Music instructor and workshop leader in schools, cultural institutions and community arts programs.
Artistic Practice
[ Personal / Artistic Lineage
my little cousin is(was) Carolina Otero (“La Belle Otero”) — family connection. Singer, dancer and celebrated Belle Époque figure known for captivating European royalty and aristocracy.
-“Most (young) kings get their heads cut off.” —
Jean-Michel Basquiat ]
Late 2024 — Rehab. Four weeks planned. One week done. Addiction: gone.
Done is done.
Self-taught visual artist, working primarily through drawing-painting, mixed media, collage and assemblage.
2025 — March /Exhibition, Berlin, in collaboration with GaleriaAzur.
STATEMENT
Artist Statement
“Since we are nothing, let us at least be extraordinary in the way we are nothing.”
An inventory of the devices deposited in the Creative / attic of the self-taught artist.
Experimental System-D.
What is more abstract in the tangible and (in)visible nature of the Human?
The Quest.
We do not always know what it is.
We do not even always know what we are (re)searching for.
Questio es eris quaesitio!
**”**What are Statements and Poems towards oneself?
As sophisticated mad dogs!”
I never really chose a particular “way” of working. Perhaps it was an audacious choice. Perhaps simply an addiction …
I have this particular inclination to “artismer ” on my chocolate packaging cartons — Lindt, 100 g, Affect. It says something about the urgency and immediacy of my work. An idea suddenly appears:
Boom. I do it.
For me, it is always the drawing that leads the way.
At first, there were a lot of chocolate cartons. Then I just kept going.
A refrigerator. Doors. Walls. Found surfaces…
Recycling, assemblage and collage have become part of this story.
La Vida: one square of choco and make some Art.
Today, I work more often on “normal” canvases — in quotation marks. The formats are getting larger. The surfaces are becoming smoother, without folds.
Perhaps I also value the “thing” itself, my work, more highly now.
Aïe. Danger!
Because there is still this determination not to lose the bricolage, the System-D, the accident, the sudden emergence.
The drop of water that makes the basin overflow.
One hundred thousand and one dram’matters.
A strange sense of Drama.
The mise en abyme.
Tension.
Dominant chords.
The devil’s tritone.
The world gives me something to push against: press drawing, people’s drawing, engaged drawing, cabaret, war, war of worlds, a world gone mad.
And yet, the world is overflowing with beauty.
I seek to go beyond the retinal, beyond aesthetics alone, beyond the mere pleasure of the eye.
And yet aesthetics remain essential, taking many forms: street art, Pop Art, Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, Impressionism, abstraction, figuration…
The meanders of the mind.
The disorders of the normal.
Emotion must come first.
The viewer can enter the work at their own level, with their own references.
But they must take a step.
A step toward the work.
My references move through History, Beauty, the Divine, the spiritual, esotericism, the occult, the feminine, Humanity, Man, Egypt, UFOs, the supernatural…
The End of the World.
Artificial stage of unofficial realism & terror, to divert the masses.
Who are the artists now?
TagueuL is not a “ready-made.”
But a “ready-made intention.”
And then there is DNZ.D’ism :
Done is done.
Done’z done.
