Antoine Gamard is a French painter, born in Paris, in 1977, best known for his colorful abstract paintings.
Gamard studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, from 1999 to 2005. In this period, he used to affix a raven logo in several European cities, mainly on stickers and therefore enrolling into the growing current of Street Art.
In that period, he attended Claude Viallat’s paint shop, and also took interest in serigraphy. This technique of one color printed at a time enabled him to use several screens to produce a multicolored image or design. He also uses the technique of sampling, as it substantiates his work by inserting it into the sample belonging to another. He consequently testifies that ‘art history, in spite of taking the appearance of one break after another, is really a continuous legacy’. History of art is an often reference in his paintings, sometimes as a reminder or a reprehension.
In 2006, Antoine started to deal with the subject of writings superposition, signing this work under the alias Edwin Goodwrite. This has led to his reflections in 2011, in order to assert his pictorial signature in abstraction. This style is what Gamard is recognized for in the art world.
From 2007, his artwork becomes a stage for cultural shifts, where graphitized walls, despite being settings, became subjects in his paintings. Walls on those paintings, vivid and colorful, are merged with words, mass media symbols, and unusual subjects like an African tribal women with a shopping bag. This phase can be seen in the idea that ‘writings, saturation and abstraction must be the core of the artwork in order to better apprehend the information’s flux, their violence and meanings’, as Antoine says.
Gamard had numerous solo and group exhibitions, like Old school in 2007, in Gallery Onega, Sample in 2013 in Gallery Celal, and most recent solo exhibition Beyond words, in 2014, in Rasson Art Gallery.
He currently lives and creates in his hometown, Paris.
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