Kobalt - Democracy 2025 - Comics series

“The state of democracy in the world is worse than what we experienced in the 1930s” (Staffan Ingemar Lindberg, director of the Varieties of Democracy Institute) interview granted to Le Monde on December 21, 2024

Title: Democracy 2025 - Comics series

Fine Art Print on 300g cotton paper

Dimensions 70x50 cm

New artwork, signed and numbered by the artist

Edition number 17/50

Delivered with a signed certificate of authenticity

For shipping, all works are protected with kraft paper and then transported in sturdy tubes. Sent with insurance and tracking number.

Biography:

Kobalt, born in Paris in 1970, embodies the path of a polymorphic artist whose creativity has developed from electronic music to contemporary graphic art. Coming from a family where art was already present thanks to his father, a draftsman, Kobalt discovers very young his first passion, musical creation. This passion guides him in his youth, and his early talents lead him to make a bold decision: to invest the money meant to finance his higher education to invest it in creating his first album.
Distributed by EMI, the album did not meet the expected success, but it marked the start of an artistic career rich in experimentation.

Alongside his musical career, Kobalt entered the world of advertising as a designer/writer for the iconic Playboy magazine. For many years, he put his creativity at the service of the publication by creating and producing the magazine’s advertising campaigns.

The turning point in his career came in 2005 when he became a cameraman, thus exploring a new facet of the visual world. In 2007, he discovered a passion for photography, adding another artistic string to his bow. In 2010, he successfully founded his own photo agency, highlighting his entrepreneurial spirit.

In 2017, Kobalt made a radical choice to sell his agency to fully embrace graphic art, inspired by his son, who had become a major figure in world street art. A pioneer of computer-assisted artistic creation, Kobalt stands out with nearly 3,000 works sold in galleries and online to date.

His artistic approach is marked by bold use of humor, provocation, and anachronisms, with a particular penchant for appropriating magazine covers, a style that makes him instantly recognizable.

Despite the digital era, Kobalt has chosen to stay on the fringes of social networks, preserving a certain privacy. Today, he uses all available digital tools to bring his creations to life, continuing to push the boundaries of artistic expression with a subtle mix of inspiration, innovation and humor.