Original and unique work, signed on the back. Sold with the certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube (no stretcher frame) to keep shipping cheap. BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS AURIOL Thomas Auriol is french painter born in 1987. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Spain and China, and has also taken part in several group shows all over France, in Switzerland and Romania. Painting between Saint Quay Portrieux (France) and Cadiz (Spain), Thomas has established himself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both on the national and international scene. Because of his daily practise of sailing, kitesurfing or paragliding, Thomas Auriol built a strong and intimate relationship with landscapes and explore it through painting In his earlier abstract paintings, Thomas Auriol invented hybrid forms based on small, improvised drawings. Smooth objects, isolated spots floating in lyrical uncertainty. The artist cuts up and treats images superficially to produce a form of dizzying painting. His compositions concentrate space filters, materials and phenomena in one single. Like a video editor, he pays particular attention to the way these motley elements transition into one another. Pastries, aliens, gardens, a shoe or a cockpit are all featured in his more recent paintings. A disconcerting image gradually appears on the canvas, like a fade in a video. This analogy between his painterly approach and video is no coincidence: the artist spent several years travelling the world filming the kitesurfing world cup. The painter airbrushes thin layers of tinted greys, pastel gradations and strange tertiary colours onto the canvas. The entire surface of the canvas seems organic. Each canvas establishes a kind of specific, unique and complex relationship to abstraction and depiction. His paintings are a demonstration of the blinding quality of images. They simultaneously soothe and excite us, providing us with a very specific form of respite from today’s paralysing assault of screens.