Podkol expose à l'espace Carnot

Podkol Collage artist - visual art & urban art "Pour donner du sens au désordre" ("To give meaning to disorder") Presentation of the "Urban Fragments" exhibition The works presented are fragments of contemporary stories torn from city walls and magazine extracts. Through collage, urban memory emerges, superimposing textures, shapes, images, colors and typography. In his compositions, a dialogue between past and present, layers accumulate like strata of history, bearing witness to urban flows and the anonymous narratives that interweave them. Silhouettes emerge, incomplete but vibrant, shapes interlock and deconstruct. Each collage becomes a sensitive imprint, an echo of shifting identities and a poetic, visual reappropriation of the urban tumult. To explore this exhibition is to immerse oneself in a mosaic of textures and emotions, where the ephemeral and the timeless congeal. Through my collages, I seek to give new meaning to salvaged materials, offering a fresh perspective on the urban world around us. My works tell a story in which everyone can see a message, an emotion, nostalgia, a questioning or a personal memory. About Podkol Collage artist - visual art & urban art "To give meaning to disorder". The street is full of multiple visual elements that change on a daily basis. These posters reflect our society, sometimes making us smile, ponder or question ourselves. They announce the color and atmosphere of our times. They bear witness to our world, with its revolts, contradictions and excesses, but also its passions, commitments and pleasures. Poster paper has an unsuspected richness. With its colors, images, typography and textures, it is a primary material of great diversity. Day after day, the passage of time takes its toll, as posters are superimposed, blended, transformed, decontextualized and faded... I spend a lot of time walking the streets, looking for and collecting these posters. Recovering torn, worn or fragmented posters, I combine them according to my inspiration, juxtaposing elements to give them new meaning. My collages on canvas come to life in my studio in the form of paintings, and then become the expression of a moment in a free artistic process.