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FRANCE
Humour Award - Grand BAZ’ART 2009
The artworks of Michel Smolec express his need to tell stories. The artist creates situations that are both original and very touching.
His tenderness and sense of jubilation create a kind of complicity between the characters, which are shown in different attitudes – hilarious and contorted, seemingly threatening and genuinely funny, they are never truly mean. His women, all different and emerging from his fantasy, are sometimes totally undressed, but they are never provocative; they have fleshy bottoms, voluptous and lovingly playful breasts, but they are never vulgar. His characters are hardly ever devoid of an underlying sense of humour, or of a sharp onlook on human beings.
Driven by an unclassifiable psychological urge, the artist is bound to forever renew his fanciful, yet so joyful, universe.
www.rivaisjeanine.com,
msmolec@orange.fr