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Kerdalo

Painter of Sun-Drenched Urban Scenes

Kerdalo

Chamalières 1962

After graduating from the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués in Paris in 1980, the artist Kerdalo (real name Laurent Parcelier) created a total of eight comics volumes for the Belgian publisher Casterman between 1984 and 1996. By 1989, however, he had largely turned to painting.

While clearly stylistically indebted to Impressionism, his style has undergone a constant transformation over the years. Due to his captivating subjects and loose, almost fleeting brushwork, the artist quickly gained great popularity, which was also reflected in numerous exhibitions, for example in Lyon, St. Paul de Vence, Toulouse, and Paris.

Kerdalo’s view of the city – mostly Paris – is not characterized by descriptive distance, but rather takes the viewer into the midst of sunlit boulevards, which he creates in an impressionistic manner using a gray and sepia palette. The focus of his works is on large avenues captured in central perspective and streets stretching into infinity, but also on the flow of anonymous passersby whose paths cross.

Even if this occasionally creates the impression of a still image, anything static or frozen is avoided: everything is in motion and represents, in fragments, the constant flow of urban life. His paintings are also an optimistic vision of the city of Paris, which he composes from light, strollers, markets, cafés, and terraces, in all its constantly changing character. The viewer is thus drawn into the vortex of a sun-drenched, transcending urban cosmos that evokes consistently positive emotions, and from which it is difficult to escape.

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