ile du masque de fer (2005) Painting by Stephan Graff

Stephan Graff: Plastician artist, was born in 1970 in Strasbourg. He grew up in a small town “Neuwiller les Saverne”, located in the Hanau Lichtemberg county which is in the northern part of the Vosges. This Alsacien likes to work with different materials; he created numerous models, drawings, paintings since his childhood.

In 1993, he decided to move to the United States of America, and set up his work studio in Oakland, California. During these six years he was working in a restaurant as a waiter and occasionally travelled throughout the North American continent. The artwork created in that period was influenced by the discovery of that new world.... This is also where he managed to organize a Smashing Party every year, with the logic to supply his creations with materials that were considered as “trash” in the first place.

Straight out of his imagination or from the heart of his reality, the subject matters are a mosaic of lives, dreams, and trips. They are representing places, mystical or futuristic, café sceneries, and characters.

He lives now in Vienna, Austria, and is currently organizing exhibitions there.
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• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1970
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists