l'art du boulanger (2006) Painting by Domondo

Born in the depths of Zaire, which we had to flee in 1960…. then grew up in Belgium, Ivory Coast, France, Switzerland…I live and work in Carcassonne to this day.

1/training: interior designer, at the Geneva and Toulouse School of Fine Arts
2/training as a decorative and trompe l'oeil painter.
3/ I am also passionate about sewing.
After working for several years for clients in various fields, I wanted to confront the blank page without constraints and without sponsors...and see what I had in my stomach.

I concentrate my research around visual and tactile experimentation, using heterogeneous and even unusual materials and materials (plaster, cement, glue, plants, paper, tar, textiles, etc.) mixed with oil paint or acrylic; I have to learn to domesticate, challenge, confront, explore.... and that takes me into a new world.
it’s all this excitement, this energy that keeps me moving forward. I like projects, challenges, diversity; in my "paintings" I bring together and use my various passions, my experiences, my travels and my professional experiences.

I would define myself as a "tactile painter". I would like people to want to caress my canvas.
I don't want to be locked into a technique, a material, a style or a way of doing things. a tidy box...

It turned out that I mainly painted bodies, faces and looks encountered perhaps during my real or imaginary travels………the look says a lot, the look does not deceive you can catch a brief moment of state of mind, seeing a pupil, capturing the differences in color, the golden sparks, the light in the eyes: stealing a moment of intimacy, then sharing it.
Perhaps it is this complicity that I find when painting between my painting and me; a complicity that I want to offer to those who look at my painting. Only then does it take on its full meaning.
I want to express myself through images to transmit, share, emotions, impressions... what I don't know how to say with words.

Painting to say and be.

DOMONDO

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1955
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists