Bault (FR) – Migrants
Bault (FR)
„Migrants”, 2014
3C Screenprint on BioTop Paper (250g/m²)
40×50cm, Edition of 36
The print ships with signed certificate
Bault is a French artist whose grotesque, mutating characters have become a fixture in contemporary street art. He started tagging in 1997 in the south of France before abandoning aerosol for a decade to develop his studio practice — graphic, illustrative work populated by what he calls "a cabinet of curiosities, mutating monsters, grotesque characters and polluted environments." His visual language draws from Phantasmagoria, the 18th-century French spectacle that used magic lanterns to project demons and skeletons onto smoke and walls. The lineage runs straight through Hieronymus Bosch and Art Brut to Bault's own bloated, amputated creatures. During a residency with Vienna's quartier21 at the MuseumsQuartier, he created new work and presented an exhibition at the Jan Arnold Gallery.
Migrants channels the political weight of its title through Bault's signature visual language — figures in flux, incomplete and in transit, rendered with the rough energy that has defined his work from Sète to São Paulo. Three-color screenprint on BioTop paper.
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