Marius Zabin (1956) - Au crépuscule

Marius Zabin is a contemporary painter with a classical leaning.

Born in Warsaw in 1956, he trained at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After the fall of the Wall, he moved to France. He works as a conservator-restorer for national museums.

His style results from the harmonious osmosis between training in the grand principles of socialist realism and a love for European classical painters. He revisits all the great painters of European realism in the 19th century, and draws inspiration from the mythical side of their creations. He builds a contemporary body of work that runs counter to the transgressive principles of contemporary art.

To profess love of beauty for its mere plastic existence is, in itself, a transgression. Marius Zabin does not adhere to the principles of an art that lives by the frantic pursuit of progress and novelty. But he possesses a very current palette of colors, with strong contrasts inspired by his Slavic heritage. He also reduces forms to their evocative essence, rather than to the depiction of reality. In this, he acts as a painter of his time, not as a mere sycophant of the past.

When one looks at his work, one automatically thinks of the Return to Order painters of the interwar period, such as Emil Bernard or Giorgio de Chirico.