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Sidné Le Fou | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Sidné Le Fou
  • France
Sidné grew up in Aquitaine and was immersed from childhood in both a culinary and artistic world. At home, his restaurateur father painted and sculpted. During his adolescence, he worked for the family restaurant and was first destined for the world of gastronomy.\n At the age of 21, he became renowned chef, selected by the Gault & Millau culinary guide. At this time his art was expressed on the plate. At 40 Sidné decided to completely change profession and opened an antique boutique on the Ile de Ré. \n At 50, he discovered yet another challenge: his creative soul found its way to painting. The character of Sidné the Fool and his fantasy world made its appearance. Encouraged by his wife and his entourage, he worked as a self-taught artist and was rapidly successful.\n Faces and portraits inspire him. He paints funny characters, whose tender and naive eyes, noses and mouths are twisted and deformed. His works are portraits of bullfighters, vagrants, and businessmen... which Sidné mocks gently. The facial features are enhanced and the colours diverse.\n He uses mixed technique: pasting bits of paper, books, comic books and old newspapers and then painting with acrylics. He creates on different media, mainly on canvas or metal sheeting. Much of his work is determined by his choices in cutting and pasting. On this carefully constructed background he instinctively develops an imaginary world. Sidné’s bright and colourful universe fits into the movement of Outsider Art (a twentieth century movement including productions outside aesthetic norms).\n Through his works, the artist wishes to convey his good mood, his sense of humour and the happiness he feels when painting.

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