Cesar Piette (1982) - The Plastic Country

Cesar Piette - Plastic Country

2019

43x55 cm

Edition: 100

Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth Paper,signed and numbered by the artist.

Comes with COA


A graduate from the Ecole Emile Cohl of Lyon with a Master in applied arts, César Piette’s work questions the materiality of the image and the nature of painting. Following a career in animation and video games, today he creates meticulously hand-painted pieces, which are reproductions of images he first generated on a computer.

Juxtapoz magazine recently called César Piette's paintings hyperplastic in reference to the smooth and shiny rendering of his subjects, which resemble children's figurines because of their simple form and smooth surfaces. He uses 3D modeling software to make his sketches, before reproducing them on wood with an airbrush. He plays with this tension between the virtual and the real to question our sometimes non-organic relationship to our own body. For aesthetic reasons and with the help of cosmetics, we often try to erase the slightest visible anatomical irregularity. By pushing the representation of bodies to the coldness of the synthetic and the digital, César Piette magnifies this tendency to deny the organic nature of the body, in order to question the way we see ourselves. His work has already been exhibited in Paris, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam.