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Deuz | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

  • Deuz | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Deuz
  • France
  • Painter

Working on the portrait is obvious to me because the portrait is directly addressed to people, it speaks to them, it communicates with them.
A native of Marseille, Deuz was passionate about drawing from an early age and discovered with it graffiti and comics. Influenced by these two worlds, he began doing graffiti in the streets of Marseille in the mid 90’s. At the age of 17, he visited the Picasso Museum in Paris, and his desire to become an artist was set. A determined young man, he earned several Fine Arts degrees, along with his Masters degree, in order to make his passion his profession. Deuz has taught fine arts since 2004 and flourishes alongside as an artist. He has developed over time a purely figurative style. While moved by the issues of discrimination in all its forms, the artist first creates for pleasure, even if he enjoys the idea that everyone can interpret his work differently, reading stories or understanding a message. For several years now, the buzz of his creativity has involved him incessantly in many exhibitions and collaborations, at a national and international level.
Using pencil, pen, watercolours, spray-paint and Posca markers, Deuz produced portraits, mostly of Africans, inspired by Hip-hop culture and which he nicknames his "mugs". More than just a musical reference, hip- hop is for him a source of cultural inspiration and a companion to drawing itself. Music is an integral part of his creative process: it stimulates the artist when he draws and inspires the titles of his works. Completing portraits for him is an obvious choice because they speak directly to the viewer, communicating with him. Each of these faces is made from a photograph and selected for its originality, beauty, ugliness or expressiveness. It is a true graphic dialogue that takes place between Deuz and model.

Currently this artist is only exhibited in our online gallery.

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  • 2012
    Arts Battles' collective exhibition
    New-York, United States of America (the)
  • 2011
    Tête à tête' exhibition at the Juxtapoz studio
    Marseilles, France
  • 2010
    Participation in the Lion Pride
    Bath, United Kingdom
  • 2004
    Masters in Fine Arts
    Nîmes, France
  • 1979
    Birth
    Marseilles, France
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