Gustavsen Karl | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Gustavsen Karl
- France
Painter
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Shapes are pure, sometimes on the verge of abstraction. They reinvent themselves, are recomposed in delicate assemblies.
Karl graduated from the Chambre Syndicale School of Fashion in Paris in 1991. He then became a stylist for several major international designers (Angelo Tarlazzi, Karl Lagerfeld, Andres Sarda) and held this job for several years before devoting himself to his artistic activity. His first exhibition was in 1990. In 1992, he participated in a performance show organized by the Paul Ricard Cultural Centre (Paris). In his work, the artist fixes trivial and ephemeral moments of everyday life on the background: awoman powdering her hair or face, a man with a drink at the bar... His characters pose in front of the intrigued viewer. Broken and fragmented, they propose a poetic alternative to reality.
His art is an original blend of various influences, drawing on both the aesthetic of films by Fritz Lang (Metropolis) and Fernand Léger (Le Ballet mécanique), design from the 1920's and the modernism of Le Corbusier. With audacity, he evokes the impertinence of the Dada movement. The artist invests his canvas with large areas of colour by creating a space where perspective is absent. He borrows geometric shapes from the Art Deco style and Japanese graphics, combining elements painted with acrylic to collages of juxtaposed or superposed paper cuts. He cuts the paper meticulously, much as a line drawing. His graceful stylized figures are reminiscent of haute couture patterns. One colour is sometimes enough to bring about a subject. He sculpts the material, playing on the nesting of shapes and combination tones.
- 2012Exhibition at the Dérapages galleryBrussels, Belgium
- 2008Participation in the Art Shopping Art FairParis, France
- 1990Exhibition at the Espace Carol ArnoParis, France
- 1968BirthValenciennes, France
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84 Artworks
Gustavsen Karl
Baigneuse
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Gustavsen Karl
Purple couture
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Gustavsen Karl
Man in blue
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Love duo
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Gustavsen Karl
Bozaka
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Yellow
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Love circus
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Gustavsen Karl
Rose attitude
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Winter Night
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Gustavsen Karl
Radieuse
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Gustavsen Karl
Mademoiselle Cubiste
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Gustavsen Karl
Miami
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Haute-Couture
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Gustavsen Karl
Black smoking
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Corail
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Pink
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Rose
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Gustavsen Karl
Grand dogon
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Gustavsen Karl
Woman with a comb
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Gustavsen Karl
Mademoiselle
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Lola
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Erick
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Gustavsen Karl
Amour
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Gustavsen Karl
Red Lipstick
36 x 36 cmUSD 800