Noe Roussel | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Born into a family of artists, Noé grew up in a painting workshop, which in part led him to turn towards an education in classical painting and painting restoration. After working on many mural painting restoration sites, Noé decided to have a go at producing his own pictorial creation, strongly inspired by the American artistic movement, hyperrealism.\n Dedicating himself to the production of his figurative subjects, he found an echo to his work in Alexandra Battezzatti, with whom he shared the theme of the hyperrealist representation of the sea; which resulted in the opening of a shared workshop in Nice in 2010.\n During his studies, Noé experimented with all of the pictorial techniques that he uses very frequently today in his works, but that he also associates with other more contemporary forms of media, silver photography and the transfer of numeric images. This mixture of materials and techniques would lead to the creation of an original artistic language, which is expressed through the imaginary reinterpretation of portraits of anonymous ancestors or personalities, like the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo – a figure continually revisited.\n “Playing with places, cultures and periods, [Noé] creates alternative realities, which try to demonstrate the universal character of humanity and the divine part in the human figure.” Through his interpretation of graphic elements from worlds both rich and varied – from classical occidental painting to Buddhist imagery from the Indian sub-continent, via ancient photography and Japanese engraving – Noé adds a touch of contemporaneity.