Amose / 1979 / France
Lives and works in Lille / France
amose[@]hotmail.fr
His work lies in the blending of his writings, which are graphic, pure and very contemporary, while echoing our origins when these faces appear, the character of his work, and the way in which he has created his work.
For this is the subject of predilection: the human body and its partial or total deconstruction.
Contorted bodies are light, and give us the illusion that they float. Of these imaginary and enigmatic beings, there is only the feet and the hands. Their round and bewitching eyes surrounded by black, stare, observe, question and offer faces with a masked look.
There are no rules, the anatomy of these androgynous and timeless bodies evolves and seems to be in full mutation. The limbs become entangled in geometric shapes and disappear one behind the other as if they were changing before our eyes.
These deformed beings testify to the paradox that exists today between a permanent technological evolution or even obsession and a return to values or to natural and past ways of life.
Amose superimposes, mixes the mediums and varies the supports, it is a mixture of collages, serigraphs, inks, and acrylic. Old architect’s plans or wood supports are privileged to the canvas by the artist that he finds too fragile and cold to his taste, wood has this lively, warm, and solid side that can be more easily scratched, rubbed, printed, covered.
The body also knows how to dislocate itself completely to create more abstract compositions in order to free itself from a figuration and an anatomy that is certainly very unbridled but sometimes too directive.
EDUCATION
1996/2000 Illustration ward / St luc Art Institut / Tournai – Belgium
2000/2003 Graphic design ward / Beaux Art Institut / Tournai – Belgium
EXHIBITIONS AND MURALS
2020
Concert hall « L’antipode » / Rennes – France / Mural painting
Concert Hall » Le Grand Mix/ Tourcoing – France / Mural painting
Colab Gallery / Weil-am-Rhein – Germany / Collective Exhibition
Espace le Carré Gallery / Lille – France / Collective exhibition
Lockdown Gallery / Lille – France / Covid 19 Residency
2019
Artistic residency over the year / St André lez Lille – France
Vertical Gallery / Chicago – USA / Collective exhibition
L’Aéronef & 9eme concept / Lille – France / Artistic residency & mural painting
Les Urbanités Festival / Reims – France / Mural painting
Iambilly festival / Ambilly – France / Mural painting
Les 4ecluses / Dunkerque – France / Mural painting
Banana Pschitt festival / Dijon – France / Mural painting & collective exhibition
EFAP – Art & Communication High School / Lille – France / Artistic residency curated by
Prazowski gallery / Mural painting
2018
Cicero association Le Mur 12 / Paris – France / Mural painting
IPAF Festival / Marseille – France / Mural painting and collective exhibition
City of St André / St André – France / Mural painting
Street art festival / Villejuif – France / Mural painting
2017
Rigassi Gallery / Bern – Switzerland / Duo exhibition with Mizzo
MFM & Flow / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
AGB Gallery / Lille – France / Solo Exhibition & Artistic residency
2016
Vaste & Veloce Gallery / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
Colab Gallery / Weil-am-Rhein – Germany / Collective Exhibition
Vertical Gallery / Chicago – USA / Collective exhibition
2015
Soon Gallery / Bern – Switzerland / Solo Exhibition
Partisan Creative Corner Gallery / Soest – Germany / Solo Exhibition
2014
Vertical Gallery / Chicago – USA / Collective Exhibition
Sergeant paper art store Gallery / Paris – France / Solo Exhibition
Inoperable Gallery / Vienna – Austria / Collective Exhibition
Djerbahood project / Djerba – Tunisia / Mural painting
Street art Cologne / Cologne – Germany / Collective Exhibition
Urban culture center / Lyon – France / Collective Exhibition
STA Gallery / Tel aviv – Israël / Solo Exhibition & Mural painting
2013
Colab Gallery / Weil-am-Rhein – Germany / Collective Exhibition
BIAM Mural Festival / Lille – France / Exhibition & Mural painting with Eroné
Inoperable Gallery / Vienna – Austria / Exhibition by Eroné & Amose
2012
Die Kunstagentin Gallery / Koln – Germany / Collective Exhibition
Mural IST festival / Istanbul – Turquey / Mural painting
Stadt Gallery / Saarbrucken – Germany / Collective Exhibition and Mural painting
Maison folie de wazemmes / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
Maison folie moulins / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
2011
Sergeant paper store / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
City Leaks Festival / Koln – Germany / Mural painting & Exhibition
Infart Festival / Bassano del grappa – Italy / Mural painting
Creature Festival / Lodi – Italy / Mural painting
Inoperable Gallery / Vienna – Austria / Solo exhibition
2010
Celal Gallery / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
Nexus Gallery / Reims – France / Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
Nice Nice Gallery / Hanover – Germany / Solo Exhibition
Issue Gallery / Paris – France / Exhibition by Amose & Eroné
Palais rameau / Lille – France / Exhibition & Installation Mercurocrom & Le Lem
Maison folie de moulins / Lille – France/ Collective Exhibition Glasnostdead
Art Asylum Gallery / Boston – USA / Collective Exhibition
Issue Gallery / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
All over Gallery / Lyon – France/ Collective Exhibition
2009
Ores Gallery / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
All over Gallery / Lyon – France/ Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
Ores Gallery / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
L’art de rien Gallery / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
2008
All over Gallery / Lyon – France / Collective Exhibition
Issue Gallery / Paris – France / Collective Exhibition
IDG Gallery / Berlin – Germany / Exhibition Amose & Eroné
L’hybride / Lille – France / Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
Maison folie de moulins / Lille – France/ Exhibition & Installation Mercurocrom & le Lem
Lune des pirates / Amiens – France / Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
2007
Maison folie de wazemmes / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
Le Lem / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
2006
La condition publique / Roubaix – France / Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
Bar parallele / Lille – France / Exhibition Mercurocrom collective
2005
Le Lem / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
2004
Le Lem / Lille – France / Collective Exhibition
2003
Braderie de l’electro / Lille – France / Exhibition & Installation
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Guide du street art à Lille / June 2021 / Alternatives publishing ( France )
2020
La Gazette de Nicole n° 029 / septembre 2020 / La Chienne Publishing ( France )
Guide du street art en France / January 2020 / Alternatives publishing ( France )
Guide du street art à Marseille / May 2020 / Alternatives publishing ( France )
2019
Focus Magazine n° 95 / february – march
2016
The Art of mural Volume 01 / may 2016 / Schiffer publishing (USA)
2013
Amateur magazine 012 / April 2013 (Switzerland)
2012
4560 – Urban Art show & meeting Saarbrucken 2012 / August 2012 (Germany)
Post graffiti – collective exhibition book / April 2012 (France)
2011
Walls and Frames by Maximiliano Ruiz / October 2011 / Gestalten Publishing (Germany)
Emulsion 01 – screenprint book / May 2011 (France)
Great big book of Illustration by Martin Dawber / 2011 / Batsford publishing (England)
2010
Graffiti art magazine issue 09 / Summer 2010 (France)
Graffiti all stars magazine issue 10 / September 2010 (France)
2009
DPI magazine issue 126 / october 2009 (China)
Belio 029 X10 – Special 10th anniversary / June 2009 (Spain)
Illusive contempory illustration part 03 / september 2009 / Gestalten Publishing (Germany)
2008
Joia magazine – issue 04 / March 2008 (Chile)
Belio Die young collection DY006 – Eroné & Amose / october 2008 (Spain)
Mercure liquide magazine – Issue 09 / november 2008 (France)
2007
Wooden toy – collector’s edition issue 004 / April 2007 (Australia)
Street skecth book by Tristan manco / september 2007 / Thames and Hudson publishing (England)
Création Numerique magazine issue 125 / June 2007 / (France)
2006
Belio magazine 020 Revolution issue / april 2006 (Spain)
2005
Come Unity magazine 013 Television issue / May 2005 (France)