ARDPG - LIRE SUR MES LEVRES

SCULPTURE READ ON MY LIPS, or words create the form and, by taking the time, one realizes that these lips hide words, a story...
Each unique piece was made in cut and painted wood.

The artist ARDPG, pseudonym of Arnaud Puig, is a French artist born in 1980 in Périgueux and currently living in Bordeaux. Coming from graffiti culture, which he discovers and practices from the 1990s, he gradually develops a pictorial practice that goes beyond the frame of traditional street art. Parallel to his artistic practice, he studied art history at the university, a training that deeply nourishes his approach and his visual imagination. His work thus sits at the crossroads of several worlds: that of classical painting, urban culture, and contemporary plastic experiments. Through painting, collage, typography, and even interventions in public space, ARDPG explores the tensions and possible dialogues between these different visual heritages.

This reflection finds a particularly strong expression in his series on words, where he fabricates shapes, motifs from words, from a story. At first glance, one discovers shapes, but taking the time the letters, then the recital appears to tell us a story...