Friday 11 December 2015

Various Paintings Are Burned Into Our Psyche,

a face or an image we instantly know,


 but French artist Julien de Casabianca, takes a different look at many works that we would never see or even remember,

 the majority of faces either nameless or not burned into memory, men, women, and children immortalized by brush stroke but forgotten by time,

for the last few years by placing recreations of the unknown on urban street corners and abandoned buildings as a part of his Outings Project, since its inception the project has gone global, Oslo, Geneva, and Warsaw a new addition to the project at the top of this post in Jacksonville, FL stands two-stories tall, a young girl in a bonnet peering away from the viewer and into the boarded-up brick wall on which she is placed, most of the works however are characters hiding behind drooped plants or crouched on the ground at knee-level, De Casabianca will show his own work in Belgium next year at the Musée d’Ixelles from March 5th to April 10th, more of de Casabianca’s pieces can be found on his online gallery, what a great way to remember 'the forgotten'.


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