Brice Guilbert
Brice Guilbert’s work is an autobiographical portrait depicted with a wealth of different media, drawings, and music. Its nostalgia finds its genesis within his Creole roots. An exotic reminiscence of childhood and adolescence lived in Reunion Island. A tension arises between his musical compositions - carried by very personal Creole lyrics and his painting, the latter being abstract and non-narrative as opposed to his musical texts. His paint- ings are composed of a succession of gestures, repeated such as a mantra in an accumulation of layers until a state of materiality and light is reached. To create this material quality, the artist produces his own tools, oil sticks, frames, as well as every step of his music. The issues between music and image, bouncing off one another, mirror each other. Such as an exorcism, Guilbert’s work is tied to his personal and lived experiences.
Guilbert’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including Island, Brussels, Belgium, Corrida, Ghent, Belgium, Théâtre National, Brussels, Belgium, Johannes Vogt, New-York, Louise 186, Brussels, Belgium, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium, MNAC Anenda, Bucharest Romania, Hunchentoot, Berlin, Germany, and We-Projects, Brussels, Belgium, among others. In 2015 he pubished Cirque de Mafate (Theophile's Papers) and in …
Brice Guilbert’s work is an autobiographical portrait depicted with a wealth of different media, drawings, and music. Its nostalgia finds its genesis within his Creole roots. An exotic reminiscence of childhood and adolescence lived in Reunion Island. A tension arises between his musical compositions - carried by very personal Creole lyrics and his painting, the latter being abstract and non-narrative as opposed to his musical texts. His paint- ings are composed of a succession of gestures, repeated such as a mantra in an accumulation of layers until a state of materiality and light is reached. To create this material quality, the artist produces his own tools, oil sticks, frames, as well as every step of his music. The issues between music and image, bouncing off one another, mirror each other. Such as an exorcism, Guilbert’s work is tied to his personal and lived experiences.
Guilbert’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including Island, Brussels, Belgium, Corrida, Ghent, Belgium, Théâtre National, Brussels, Belgium, Johannes Vogt, New-York, Louise 186, Brussels, Belgium, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium, MNAC Anenda, Bucharest Romania, Hunchentoot, Berlin, Germany, and We-Projects, Brussels, Belgium, among others. In 2015 he pubished Cirque de Mafate (Theophile's Papers) and in 2011 he published Who is it (dcgf.)
Courtesy of Island
