La boîte de sardine Zérozoïste (1996) Painting by François-Pierre Bleau (Dit Zéro Zoo)

François-Pierre Bleau, known as ZÉRO ZOO, a diversified painter-sculptor and dissident art ideologue, was born in Montreal in 1952. His entire artistic and ideological work, spanning a career spanning 50 years, is summarized in his book "Précis de Zérozoïsme" in 4 volumes, 2100 pages, 578 reproductions, and has been the subject of 10 editions since 1986, available in digital or paper format at Amazon and in bookstores.

Zéro Zoo is an innovative artist and creator who is extremely diversified. "I am a virtuoso artist who is unrecognizable from one pictorial concept to another. I am for the fullness of expression. I have always created in an incredible diversity of Zerozoist approaches and styles that can even be opposed to excess and that defy the rules and academicisms resulting from subsidized institutional art called "contemporary art", but also from "traditional art" just as narrow-minded. In dissidence, I live, create, fight in the thicket of art. Zero Zoo has been, is, and will be as is against all odds."

Zero Zoo has practiced the profession of artist full-time since the age of 18, mainly in Canada and the USA. He was represented by 50 galleries listed on three continents. "To remain free, I also used parallel means of dissemination and sale for my art, underground means that I call my art maquis."

Zéro Zoo never wanted to do exhibitions, preferring the effectiveness of varied works that, as soon as they are done, are exhibited in galleries and quickly sold. "The only exhibition I did in 50 years was a didactic event demonstrating my Zerozoism, lasting 4 months, it attracted 5,000 visitors to the Zerozoist Museum in Montreal despite an admission price. It was my Expo-Zérozoïste of 1986, which remains the most radical and protest-oriented historical event in art. It attacked the key points of art, advocated a revolutionary ideology, a new aesthetic." This exhibition received the worst criticism in the annals of art, because it overturned the dictatorial establishment of art; the academicism of contemporary art! This emancipation of art brought over the years, to its initiator, Zéro Zoo, a notoriety and a specific artistic value associated with his works. The event received wide factual coverage; radio, television, written press, unleashing endless passions!

Zéro Zoo, the Zérozoïste guide, is a self-taught artist-researcher who learned on the job. "All of my work is complex, polymorphous, polysemic, labyrinthine, goes to the antipodes, defies rules and examples. It uses the tensions between conformism and anticonformism, plays on the balance and imbalance of these tensions against stagnation; academicism. My work is a reflection and microcosm of life, society, the universe. Its versatility is a system of creation, exploration, liberation, sharing; a courteous fight against stupidity in art and in life. Its goals; unprecedented, unlimited progress toward harmony and orgasmic and heavenly well-being.

• Nationality: CANADA
• Date of birth : 1952
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Canadian Artists