Kerdalo
Métro Les Halles Chatelet
2022

About the Item

Born in 1962 in the Puy-de-Dôme, Kerdalo lived a childhood of Fine Arts. He spends his time drawing, coloring, painting, cutting, shaping. Graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Paris, he started in the comic and Parallel to painting. Since 1996, he devoted himself exclusively to painting. Kerdalo offers us a rare and amazing writing that combines monochrome colors, to give us a full oil painting of life and lights … Indeed, the work of Kerdalo not belong to any known phenomenon, it may be appropriate for him to invent the term modern impressionism to describe this new pictorial approach. Animated with a rare gift for the treatment of light, Kerdalo register as the heir of the great Impressionists. With an experience of three decades, he has invented a truly innovative painting without ever leaving intoxicated by his success. Kerdalo continues to use the most noble and most demanding because painted in oil, with a fluid touch that has no need of subterfuge thickness to be fully expressed. In true ethnographer, Kerdalo tells the city by offering a pictorial evocation that fits perfectly in the twenty-first century. It is undoubtedly in the tradition of painters who believe that painting is a form of expression that can adapt to the times. And as there is no lack of audacity, or ideas, the result is a measure of his immense talent. Present in many prestigious galleries in France, it is now moving into foreign galleries, its reputation is therefore well established in his country. Kerdalo is a painter as one might think “hyper-realistic”, but his work is more personal. Marked by respect and the search for movement, he developed his own style. His subjects, mostly urban, are perfect to capture the moment as a still picture freezing animation of our cities. Kerdalo offers us a rare and amazing writing that combines monochrome colors, to give us a full oil painting of life and light. Marked by respect and the search for movement, he developed his own style. refined compositions, intended distortions of perspectives, abandoning the “black and white” to evolve a sepia and soft color with light and shadows very worked. Unlike photography in black and white, his paintings are a wonderful hymn to the expression of movement and speed, leaving us into the fabric, the better to share moments of life. Everyone is well aware that something is happening in these urban scenes with natural transcribe the mobile living, vibrant, noisy cities. Animated with a rare gift for the treatment of light, it offers us an original work, which acts as a mirror to emotions. To discover…

Creator:

Kerdalo (1962, French)

Creation Year:

2022

Dimensions:

Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Impressionist

Period:

2010-