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SEB RUSSO
Post-raw artist and
neosingular
Seb Russo, postbrut and neo-singular artist, graphic designer, draftsman and creator of the Revue Trakt.
A monde Russolien
"I was born between Naples and Palermo, that is to say in Lyon in 1961 between the Feyzin refinery and the Parc de la Tête d'Or, I wanted to make films, but I was only a small filmmaker in my head, and it's still good."
Sebastien Russo
In preparation my second book, without drawing or trumpet, a Russian world
What you want to know about Seb Russo
“If we know exactly what we are going to do, what is the point of doing it?”
Pablo Picasso
I always dreamed of being a comic book hero, I wanted to walk on the moon. One day my dad came home with a guitar, he played from dusk to dusk for years, then he left and I never walked on the moon. For years, I saw a Vasarely advertisement in a bus stop, I asked myself questions, and I started to learn drawing by drinking images. I read Philippe Druillet's albums between the tin shelves and the DIY department. And, as I still couldn't walk on the moon, I invented a world for myself by hanging on to a branch, I drew, I painted. For me, this act is not a simple act, it's a dip in the dream, a line, a line, a meaning, black from white and a world is born, aborted sometimes, I never have anything thrown!
After a stint at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, I learned to listen, hear and see. I fed on Laurie Anderson, I drowned in the work of Andy Warhol and pop art. Then back in life, I spent my time browsing the assembly workshops while drawing 4 hours a day, sometimes even in front of a machine! Without having walked on the moon, my head was in the clouds, in my drawing. I worked for more than 20 years in the most complete anonymity, not having time to show, not being able to talk about it.
Since 1996, I also work with the computer tool and I create images, worlds, characters straight out of my imagination. My work is constantly changing. Little by little I move towards the void, towards the conceptual, as if I had gone around it. Art is an act: to provoke sensations in the spectator, to lose him sometimes, to drown him under the images...
I never looked behind me, I never thought about the future, I walked on the present, I caused myself an indigestion of images, dreams and colors. For me art is nothing if it is not shared and today I share with you my first steps on the moon. I would end with this sentence from Joseph Beuys “I am convinced that each of us is an artist and that his most beautiful work of art is his life”.
Digital Art
Seb Russo and Sergey Vinogradov
Our imagination is a reflection of our sad reality.
Print on Dibond - 30 by 40 cm
We will no longer have a choice when there is only one tree left on the planet.
Print on Dibond - 30 by 40 cm
Canvas prints - 30 by 30 cm - numbered from 1 to 10 with frames.
Seb RussoBeacon of light
New“Since 2000, painting, drawing and digital art have become my main activities. Arrived in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire in 2011, I started a work called “The beautiful escape”, colorful and with characters à la Haring. "The beautiful escape" is a joyful and playful painting, I only use warm colors to express this joy of living, my artistic activity. In addition to this more conventional work, I also use computer tools to develop my activity because I am also a graphic designer,” comments Seb Russo.
“At this time, I think painting should be fun for the eyes and a story that each of us can invent. I would like my artistic project to also become a way of decorating the streets of a city. Color and shapes are for me a means of transmitting my joys and my various emotions”. Seb Russo.
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The biography of Seb Russo according to Jan BARDEAU
Seb Russo comes from a family of Italian immigrants, workers, modest according to the term to designate the poor, first residents of the Minguettes district in Lyon, at the time known among other things for its Saturday evening car rodeos (with the cops in the ass, that goes without saying) and its seemingly peaceful mix of Italians (therefore), Portuguese, Spaniards, North Africans. A living city, a city of suffering too.
Seb Russo learns to draw in his corner, his ear glued to France Inter, dreaming of something else, dreaming of art, however, after a brief stint at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon, he will abandon his studies for lack of means. and join the ranks of industrial workers. Constant difficulties of the popular classes to get out of the ruts in which they are born, without money, without the specific culture which allows assimilation into circles a notch above in the socio-professional hierarchy and, of course, without indulgence in waiting to forgive their (our) stupid airs, their (our) too loud voices or their (our) plump jokes and especially not their (our) cheap look. We know the intransigence of cultural people in the face of clothing without research (but especially without money) or in the face of non-respect of codes of conduct such as this right dignity a tad jaded that should be affected, often doubled times with a sharp bitch language.
Be that as it may, drawing like a madman, at night in front of his machines, with a ballpoint pen on scraps of paper, Seb Russo develops a great certainty, a great speed of line, which makes him an unparalleled draftsman.
My opinion, which is mine, and I thank myself for it, would also consist in thinking that Seb Russo is more of a draftsman than a real painter, his features spring up, intertwine, create unexpected shapes, faces arise, bodies meander and tangle and, sometimes starting from random lines, build up maelstroms of figures, a chaos just like that of life, moving and creative.
Seb Russo also dabbled in digital art which, as the nerds claim, is only a few clicks on Toshop (as the nerds call Photoshop, never heard a graphic designer call Photoshop Toshop, or InDesign Deesi, or Illustrator Totor, anyway).
Finally, if some, jokers or bandits, plan to go there to sow their zone of the thunder of their mother, tremble, because the Seb will punish you with vibrating blows of canes on your cute ass (and with pleasure).
Seb Russo in the Press
Seb Russo at the Maison du Passeur de Savonnières
He wasn't destined to become an artist?! Born into an Italian family, his destiny was to become a maintenance mechanic. A profession he has practiced for a long time. But when you're destined to become an artist, there's nothing you can do... For Seb Russo, the catalyst was a memory of his past?: "I've always dreamed of being a comic book hero, and I wanted walk on the moon. One day my dad came home with a guitar, he played from night to morning for years, then he left a few years later and I never walked on the moon. This childhood dream, associated with the memory of a dad left far too soon, that's all he puts on the canvas. And Seb dreams in color, so he puts it everywhere, and since he has a lot to say, his works are like a compendium of his thoughts, his desires, his follies and his fears too. Paintings in front of which we do not remain indifferent, and in which we discover each time a little more than what we had seen barely a minute ago... It is not easy to describe an exhibition by Seb Russo, even less that which was inaugurated at the Maison du passeur and which will last until September 3. The easiest way is to go see her, and if you have the chance to see the artist, to talk to her. The man is shy, but he has so much to say that he is all the more exciting. Seb Russo, La Maison du Passeur, main street, opposite the church of Savonnières, free admission, Tuesday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The New Republic of Savonnières
“They say of me that I do street art, singular art, contemporary art, conceptual art or whatever. For me, it's just dreaming and improvisation."
A painting without constraints and a head full of projects.
Amatulli Dominica
Seb Russo is one of those artists whose painting merges with his history. Under the title La Belle Escape, he exhibited at the Moutt'Art gallery until the end of August.
He willingly takes up the sentence of Pablo Picasso: “If we know exactly what we are going to do, what is the point of doing it? ".
When he throws the first brushstrokes on the white canvas, Seb Russo also does not know where the drawing will take him. This doesn't worry him at all, since he doesn't think about the future any more than he looks at the past.
From Minguettes to the Peace of Touraine
However, life has not been a long calm river for him. A childhood spent in Minguettes, a difficult district of the Lyon suburbs "which sticks a label on your back forever", then, at the age of fifteen, a move to a village in Burgundy. There he learns loneliness, but this isolation will prove to be a founder in his career as an artist. He discovers by chance from an album the fantastic world of Philippe Druillet, who awakens in him the vital need to draw everything that surrounds him.
On competition, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Lyon. There, he hopes to progress in drawing, "but above all you learn to be an artist", he still laments today. However, he made some great encounters there, such as that of Robert Combas, one of the fathers of free figuration.
At the age of 25, Seb Russo began a career as a factory worker, which he would exercise for twenty years. But he will never stop drawing, sometimes to the detriment of his work, accumulating an impressive collection of works.
Now living in Tours and free from any constraints, he can fully devote himself to his passion.
“They say of me that I do street art, singular art, contemporary art, conceptual art or whatever. For me, it's simply dreams and improvisation”, soberly observes the one who has now made a name for himself among the most imaginative artists.
Colourful, abundant, optimistic, Seb Russo's painting splashes the canvas with an indomitable energy and an unalterable thirst for life.
There she is, La Belle évasion, the title of her exhibition and the culmination of her life in Touraine.
Exhibition until August 27 at the Moutt'Art gallery. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 25, rue de la Treille, tel. 04.73.91.08.46 Internet: www.galerie-art-singulier.com
SEB RUSSOAT THE CREATION PAVILION OFSAINT-CYR-SUR-LOIRE
SAINT-CYR-SUR-LOIRE
The picture rails of the Creation pavilion display the very colorful universe of Seb Russo.
This artist, who attended the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and who is also a graphic designer, defines his art as belonging to free figuration, an artistic movement that appeared in the 1980s. "My work is inspired by comics, free figuration and street art. As in comics, I always surround the colors with black,” he explains.
Arrived in Touraine five years ago, he now appreciates having a studio where he can work standing on large formats and dreams of one day being able to exhibit all of his works: "I worked for more than 20 years in the most complete anonymity, without having time to show, without being able to talk about it. For fifteen years, painting, drawing and digital art have become his main activities and by settling in Tours, first, then in Saint-Cyr, four years ago, he started a work called “La Belle Évasion”, colorful and “with characters à la Haring”. “La Belle Évasion” is intended to be a joyful and playful painting: “I only use warm colors to express this joie de vivre that is my artistic activity. This year 2015 will have allowed him to exhibit in Montpellier, Avignon, Paris, among others, and in Touraine, in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. In Saint-Cyr, Seb Russo presents three paintings and a portrait, with the hope of finding a larger space for his next exhibition.
