Théo Viardin is a French painter born in Paris in 1992. In his enigmatic figurative paintings, Viardin presents beings in mutation, colossal human figures seemingly watching over one another. His treatment in successive layers of oil, alternating gestural brushstrokes and ethereal glazes, reveal the oppositions inherent in his work: nourished by a dialogue with philosophy seeking to capture the essence of the human condition, his paintings do not exist without dichotomies, without the complexity of the contrast. This tension manifests itself in figures as massive as they are vulnerable, in group scenes set in stripped-down worlds, and in the stark color contrasts between form and space.
He is currently having a Solo show in PACT Gallery (Paris, France), where he explore through the sphinx's Enigma out relation to alterity.
