French inksmith Bruno Leyval’s work has given me a whole new respect for ink as a medium. Not that I was lacking in the first place, but he’s moved it up to some superhuman schema. Combining ink, a little spraypaint, and what I’m gonna guess is coffee or tea, Leyval creates his grungy, dripping, high contrast work. Almost all of his pieces are portraits, leaving that term pretty loose, and most of them feature strong figures from the history of the black community. It’s something about the looks they have on their faces that moves Leyval’s work from just ink mastery to real, poke-you-in-the-feelings art. Apparently I need to learn French, because those smooth talking cats are coming out swinging lately.
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Bruno Leyval | 22-May-08 at 12:33 pm | Permalink
thank you very much & peace from France !