Galerie Claude Lemand

Fares CACHOUX, Contemporary Figures.

Curators of the exhi­bi­tion : Nadine Fattouh (Nadine Fattouh Fine Art, Paris) and Katia Boudoyan (Director of the IMA-Tourcoing), with the sup­port of Basel Jbaily.
___

The Art of Fares Cachoux

At the inter­sec­tion of polit­ical poster, graphic art and painting, the work of Fares Cachoux is a com­mitted work of art. From pol­i­tics to the envi­ron­ment through to an anal­ysis of the world’s soci­eties and their var­ious idosyn­cra­cies, his per­spec­tive is always rel­e­vant, judi­cious and inci­sive.

Cachoux first gained promi­nence for his elo­quent posters doc­u­menting the 2011 Syrian rev­o­lu­tion, in which he high­lighted the events shaking his native country and denounced the abuses com­mitted by the Syrian regime against its own people. Over the next few years, he then turned his atten­tion to the coun­tries of the Gulf, where he lived for 10 years. Caught between age-old tra­di­tions and an unbri­dled thirst for moder­nity, life in the Gulf reveals itself to be para­dox­ical but is, in many respects, simply a reflec­tion of our own, per­sonal com­plex­i­ties. More recently, Cachoux has focused on the envi­ron­ment and the new chal­lenges we face, begin­ning with nur­turing a respect for our sur­round­ings and our nour­ishing Earth.

Cachoux’s min­i­malist and daring style, expressed in bright colours and strong, simple sil­hou­ettes, makes it pos­sible to transmit clear mes­sages which express humanity’s quest for freedom and dig­nity.

He held his first solo exhi­bi­tion in Paris in 2015, after being invited by Banksy to par­tic­i­pate in his Dismaland exhi­bi­tion in the United Kingdom. Today, his works are reg­u­larly fea­tured in pub­li­ca­tions such as Le Monde, Le Temps, Courrier International and the Huffington Post. His work also appears in French school text­books and is fre­quently used to teach stu­dents how to read and deci­pher polit­ical posters.