Adrien Fregosi

Adrien Fregosi’s paintings are often large-scale, depicting scenes in which several people or objects interact, somewhere between genre painting – in terms of the symbolic significance of the elements – and comic strips – in terms of the effectiveness of the narrative. Often the figure, lying down or withdrawn, refers to a kind of main character, a protagonist around whom the surrounding elements are arranged and read, thus referring to the viewer’s position, and the artist’s actual self-portrait. The scenes painted by Adrien Fregosi celebrate and metaphorize life and its beauty, its sometimes hard moments, and the often antagonistic emotions we go through at certain stages of life. Illness, fatherhood, love, sharing, the artist’s life and isolation are just some of the themes addressed. The materiality of Adrien Fregosi’s paintings alludes to those of his main inspirations, which share a certain poverty of resources, such as graffiti, fanzine culture, technical airbrush painting, the return to figurative painting of the 60’s, and so on. The artist is particularly interested in so-called “ignorant” productions, in the margin of the institutionalized scenes – though not outsider art – and which constitutes minor influences within the established fields of creation. Marine Lang