David C. Pop Kitsch 25/9-18/10/15 Vernissage 24/9/15 18:00

“Drawing inspiration from a varied visual vocabulary, David C.’ s latest series of works entitled Pop Kitsch promotes a fresh reconsideration of
the established status and meanings of popular cultural material. Elements from famous artworks in the history of art unite lively with “classical”
cinematic heroes, cartoon characters and beloved children’s toys in an absurd, arbitrary co-existence that creates free associations and reveals
their underlying complex affiliations and contradictions.

Humour is employed to form a critical comment upon the everyday, the familiar and all that has been “legitimized” by the passage of time,
collective memory and societal recognition. Equally, the notion of kitsch, traditionally seen as the ultimate opposite of avant-garde aesthetics, proves to be also a means of exposing the hidden truths about the transformation of the banal into art and vice versa, a modernist attitude that has developed in order to, among other reasons,
serve the art market’s persistent demands for “novelty”.

At the same time, his works retain the essence of what characterises Pop Art, then and now: a sense of optimism, the playful appropriation of
mass-produced objects, the mingling of “high” and “low” art, the directness of the representation. By using selected elements in each work and flatly applied colours, he lets the viewer focus his attention
on the different aspects of their interaction and be surprised by the possible stories that develop via their juxtapositions.”

Vassiliki Vayenou

art historian


David C. is a Belgian artist born in 1968 in Brussels.

He combines all the facets of his work as designer and digital artist to produce colourful and positive images. After some drawing classes by
correspondence and a brief enrollment at the academy, he decided to give free rein to his inspiration as an autodidact. At first David was particularly interested in the oil paint for its texture and slow drying
process. Then he tried new mediums: acrylic, graphite, pastels, papier mâché and even airbrush.

After 15 years of testing and researching for an individual style, David C. looks increasingly to digital art and its endless possibilities.
Nevertheless, he does not abandon the "old" method: pencil and white paper. Thus he found a fair compromise that allows him to continue drawing
and painting while using digital technology for a great part of his work.
He describes himself as "semi-digital artist."
The aim of David C.’s approach is always positive and upbeat whatever the topic.
In our stressful society, art is there also to soothe, to make us smile, to distract us from everyday life.

Technique:

The drawing is always done in pencil on paper, then inked and scanned to be digitally colorized. Consequently the printed design is taken up with various mediums (graphite, watercolor, acrylic, watercolor pencils,...)
then worked out in 3D on polystyrene.

Exhibitions:

Collective exhibition of artists of Woluwe St Pierre: 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004
Village Artists: 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004
Libr'Art exhibition: 2005
Affordable Art Fair Brussels 2014

Permanent exhibition: Andy Marhol gallery, High Street, 69-1000 Brussels
Artop, rue de la Monnaie, 83-59000 Lille
Exposure: July, August 2015 Grand Place Brussels, 19 1000 Brussels

www.davidc.be

Duration of the exhibition : 25/9-18/10/2015
Opening hours : friday-saturday-sunday 14 :00-18 :00
Venue: Art Base, 29 rue des Sables Zandstraat, 1000 Bruxelles.

Horaires

18H