dAdG painter between abstract and figurative
Is his artists’ name an Anglicism? Absolutely not.
It’s a Far Eastern phonetic reference to his Mongolian great-grandmother’s nickname, close to “big sister” in Mandarin.
Artistically, dAdG has been influenced by the painter Francis Bacon, the sculptor Henry Moore and, in particular, CoBrA (acronym for Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, a movement advocating a return to natural primitivism). As a result, his artist’s name, like his work, reflects the graphic code of this experimental movement.
Fluid graphics
At the same time as studying illustration, dAdG also practiced graffiti. The art of graffiti has inscribed in his gestures a specific relationship to the support and has left him with a taste for large formats.
His universe swings between figuration and abstraction. His canvases reveal almost magical calligraphic signs reminiscent of prehistoric or folk art. Spontaneous and simplifying, his fluid, rapid gesture delivers poetic graphic scenes. His works bring us closer to the spirit of art brut.
Expressive, spontaneous, simplifying signs
There are a thousand ways to tell a story. How it’s told is often more important than what’s told.
dAdG doesn’t develop real figures; it’s our gaze that fixes on shapes and associates figures with them, trying to give them a narrative coherence. He retains only the essential, the graphic forces, and sets out intentions to guide us.
The artist is interested in parietal art, in particular the geometric signs that accompany the representations of animals and living beings. The modern eye would like to associate these abstract marks with figurative equivalents.
But what function should we attribute to these abstract geometric marks? Figure, stylized sign, decoration, doodle or pictographic intention? Is it pre-writing, ideograms?
Paleontologists are looking for answers, and dAdG draws inspiration from them to create energetic works that combine graphic forms with oil sticks and fluid forms with brushes.
In his studio, music, particularly classical, accompanies his work, and dAdG fully embraces the words of Nicolas de Staël: “It’s not the painting that gives pleasure, it’s the pleasure of painting that gives the painting”.
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