Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Malo Chapuy – Sans titre, 2022
2024
Acrylic on Covid visors
Born in 1995 in Laon, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Malo Chapuy draws his inspiration from the old masters, making images and objects using the medieval techniques of tempera and gilding on wood. With a fondness for anachronisms, Chapuy also embraces other types of material, such as motorbike helmets and designer sneakers, which he transforms into modern relics. Using pictorial compositions from the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods as a starting point, he makes modifications. In this kind of way, Malo Chapuy works with time warps, employing a wealth of artistic quotations and creating playful links between religious episodes and contemporary events.
In resonance with the medical and sacred history of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu, Malo Chapuy’s works explore current health and ecological crises through biblical narratives. In an age of the Coronavirus epidemics, the artist has painted holy figures on anti-Covid protective visors. He transforms these objects into stained-glass windows by replacing lead with plastic. At once dystopian and apocalyptic, Malo Chapuy’s artworks use techniques and compositions from the past to explore the future of our planet.
Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier, Paris
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