SEBASTIEN AURILLON - PARIS

Sébastien is an exciting emerging French artist in his 30s living in Manhattan. His works show us clean edged symbols and geometric shapes displayed in opaque bright colors. He creates timeless simplistic and optimistic visions that please and excite without knocking us over the head. His work is both bold and subtle at the same time.

Composition C - 2002 - Acrylic on canvas

Four Seasons - 2005 - Acrylic on Canvas

Le Jardin Botanique - 2005
Acrylic on canvas

Connexions Mécaniques - 2005 Acrylic on canvas

Le Valet de Coeur - 2005 Acrylic on canvas

Composition C is so simple, yet so pleasing, the flow of geometric shapes and imbedded solid colors seem to anchor and calm the viewer as well as confirm and welcome.

His personal path has brought him to study symbols through astrology and numerology which are found in a subtle way in his paintings. These last years, and more particularly 2006, is a year where major changes will aim at getting better answers to dealing with personal and professional objectives, with the help of a private collector who became his patron. In his study Four Seasons, he demonstrates a playful comparison of colors and simple shapes found commonly in nature. The use of repetition is seen here as well. That repetion although unprofound suggests a very pleasing pattern within a set of beautiful images.

L'Usine - 2002
Acrylic on canvas

In Le Jardin Botanique Sébastien explores a loose side of himself and his feelings, a side less rigid in geometries and evenness of balancing shapes. The composition has more life and more daring as the flowers reach out with their personality. Sébastien takes a turn away from symbolism here and really turns up the heat with this work, the stretching forms all reach for the sky. Le Jardin Botanique also exhibits a far less mechanical look and shows another direction that Sébastien has ventured into with ease. He has created his own techniques and tools in order to project his visual interpretations. To obtain a certain texture free result he only uses rollers and prepares his canvas with masking tape. He enhances the colors by surrounding them in hard edge black line.

Sébastien took part recently in the show "Artmania2" in Paris