Homme des cavernes Photography by Alexis Ox6mor

Career
Having experienced the fashion of tagging, graffiti and then the emergence of street-art, I started by developing different types of writing, then on the study of poses bodily. Little by little, I realized that reproducing reality was not my thing. The landscapes, the respect of proportions, the depth, the gradients… nothing to do, the sketches followed one another without anything working. Until the day when I preferred to use my faults to turn them into graphic qualities, which was to become my touch. After all if I drew this head too big or if I extended this arm to this point, why not accept it?
I then explored the paths of tribal arts, comics, street-art, cubism, and mixed it all up. The idea, from the start, was to inspire me without ever copying. My first drawings were as numerous as they were tiny, rarely exceeding a few centimeters on each side, using ultra-fine pens or markers. Then the format evolved (from the A4 sheet to the canvas frame) as well as the support (from the inert to the living).

Domains
. Canvas… modest sizes, for personal taste but also for practical reasons (living in an apartment, little space!).
. Street-art drawing… Drawn sheets that I then stick in the street. Bulimic of A4 format, I can do up to a hundred in one day... but not every day of the year.
. Body-painting… For which I set up an association (enter “symbiosis body project” in the engine of your choice), generally in naturist areas, with a photographer. Sometimes also for events (festivals, community centres, etc.).

Style, influences, techniques

My #1 material: felt. I handle the brush very little, except to make some abstract backgrounds in relief. In canvas, I first make a background, abstract, to highlight the figurative pattern of the felt, giving a "cloudy" or "starry" base of several intertwined tones, giving way to a drawing with clear black outlines, distinct shapes , then interiors in bright colors, often primary and secondary.

It's hard to cite very specific influences, feeding me with the image without trying to know its history and origin. In fact, I have many influences that I cannot necessarily name. Note all the same…

. Primitive and tribal arts, ink and brush comics.
. Cubism.
. The writings, whether tags, hieroglyphs, calligraphy or even computer fonts.
. The street-art of anonymous people of all kinds (stickers, stencils, reverse graffiti, volumes…).

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1979
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists

The Artist was highlighted in an article in Artmajeur Magazine:

Alexis Ox6mor Interview