By In a contemporary and surreal style, his art balances on a fine line filled with dreams and hope. An artist with strong museum potential, with a career already well established for his young age. A natural entrepreneur with a powerful life energy, he will not stop surprising us over the next few years.
Highlight :
- Group Show, Parallels, with Pascal Foisy Lapointe Philippe Mastrocola, Galerie L’Original (Montreal)
- Group Show, Barscq Gallery, (Paris)
- Duo Show, Critical Mass, with Andy Warhol, L’Original Gallery (Montreal)
Artistic framework
Nicolas Craig defines his artistic practice as the exploration of a plurality of techniques. It is not part of a particular form of specialization, but rather, according to him , as a continuous exploration of the methods, theories and tools at its disposal . He thus mixes street spray-paint techniques and fine arts techniques. Bringing a particular criticism to the institutionalization of the arts, he is one of those who explores the texture and the unknown of the abstract, not afraid to add a touch of madness, his favorite tool is “the little n ‘anything’ to innovate through error and the unknown. Getting away from academic perfection, getting out of the box, inventing something never seen before, isn’t that the very essence of a true artist?
It characterizes his work in two main dimensions. On the one hand, that of the print, with which he strives to create faces, objects or landscapes. Then on the other hand, there is that of painting, in which he identifies himself more with contemporary surrealism by the recurrence and the aestheticism that he maintains with clusters of bodies, sometimes elongated, intertwined
According to him, it is the medium of painting that best represents him. Because indeed, it allows him to deepen his reflection and his research. Nicolas says of printmaking that it is a relatively simple practice, endowed with a complex technique but with which he has less access to a self-reflective depth of the soul.
Lyrical Style:
“I do my research around women. The female sex is often portrayed in a context of overabundance of bodies.
These clusters of humans are deconstructed and decontextualized. They are usually juxtaposed with other types of images, which creates friction between the bodies and the sporadic “intruders”.
Whether by fragmentation, superimposition or juxtaposition, I like to mix genres by confronting them with the human figure. The result is a reinterpretation of the female subject with a very personal mix of themes, genres and textures. Whether with pop-culture images, or simply to bring out the organic side of painting, the intertwining of different types of images shapes my creation.
I define myself as a researcher, a fan of painting, and that’s what I’m currently devoting my life to.”
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