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Hello and welcome to this site!

First, a quick introduction

I've had many jobs throughout my life, and for over 20 years now I've lived near Rennes in France (I mention this because I have visitors here from Amsterdam, Chicago, Moscow (?)). I was employed in plumbing all that time in Brittany and I'm now a self-employed plumber.

I started drawing and producing a few pieces in 2018. I've had the opportunity to exhibit several times, including a few opening nights, the first of which, from my tiny, pseudo-artist's perspective, was a resounding success! A huge crowd—all my friends came, family, friends of friends of friends, colleagues, strangers, people, you name it. We drank well, laughed a lot, and had music! What a wonderful evening! It was at the Café de la Cité in Rennes (what a lovely place!) in February 2019.

Today I have the ambition to continue creating, tinkering and showing what I do through this site.

I take photos of what I produce, I glue, draw, paint on metal, boiler sheets, plexiglass, recycled materials, I take care of the layout so only organic here please, no artificial intelligence for example, to be clear, I don't give a damn about what a supercomputer can produce in the artistic field.

I also write down whatever comes to mind, it feels good and above all without worrying about anything, you can also leave messages, your impressions and anything else, outside of social networks.

It would be great to share and exchange ideas. It's an art site, but it can be more than that.
As I said earlier, it may be very ambitious.

Sincerely
Marco



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Je suis dans l'atelier de mon père , menuisier de métier il a exercé cette profession durant toute sa carrière , il est décédé depuis maintenant sept ans et ma mère, depuis peu .

 Il nous faut aujourd'hui envisager de vendre la maison , vider pour cette raison  l'atelier , le hangar à bois , à  bazar et fourre tout : des pneux , des meubles de jardin , du bois de chauffage , des bastaings , des billes de bois entamées , plusieurs mètres cube de palettes coupées en morceaux pour alimenter la chaudière , des vieux vélos , les machines , les outils electro-portatifs , des clous , des vis , des charnières , des poignées de porte , des pistolets à chevilles chimiques, des pinces à rivet, une ponceuse à parquets , des ponceuses à main , des outils dont je connais pas l'utilisation , quelques meubles évidemment , des tables , des tables rondes , des étais , des serre-joints , des plaques d'habillage ouvragées pour fabriquer des cache radiateurs , des échelles , des escabeaux , des sacs de copeaux , une table de ping-pong , des milliards de trucs en tout genre et une caisse en bois .

Dans cette caisse des chutes de bois de macassar , du bois d'ébène qui vient d'Indonésie. Je vais utiliser ces chutes , ces petits tasseaux de dimensions égales ou presque pour essayer de  parler de mon père, de mon oncle imprimeur , de mon grand-père .

Les chutes font à peu près toutes la même longueur , la même épaisseur , sur un coté elles présentent des défauts de coupe , des stries , des cassures , je les utilise comme tampons encreurs , j'obtiens ( c'est mon avis ) des rangées de motifs qui rappellent les lignes de tampons utilisés en imprimerie du temps de mon grand-père imprimeur pour imprimer les récits d'alors. Ce ne sont pas ici des phrases en toute lettres qu'on voit évidemment mais j'y vois le langage du bois , celui de mon père à sa façon et  je me souviens de la musique de ce langage particulier dans l'atelier , le bruit des machines , les odeurs de sciure , de colles , de vernis qui encore aujourd'hui me ramènent au temps de son activité. La musique aussi de l'imprimerie au combien , les encres , les presses , les rouleaux de papier , cette ambiance industrieuse dont j'ai quelques souvenirs magnifiques mais d'autres que moi en parleront bien mieux.

L'alignement  en colonnes rappelle les lignes d'un texte qu'on viendrait marger à gauche, les stries et cassures sont les mots , les pièces de bois collées sur le tableau font parties d'un tableau que j'ai désossé pour en utiliser les morceaux , un tableau que j'ai fait à partir d'éléments d'une armoire que j'avais dans ma chambre d'enfant mais c'est une autre histoire.
 

L'arrière plan du motif sur plexi est un nuancier de plaquettes de stratifié de la marque polyrey utilisé par mon père menuisier de métier , le perso qu'on voit dans le reflet de cette magnifique photo, c'est moi...
Cadre sous verre 70X100 

 

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Tôles d'acier noir récupérées sur un chantier , elles sont utilisées pour cacher les futurs passages de réseaux

( tuyaux de chauffage, de plomberie, d'évacuation des eaux usées ) d'un niveau du bâtiment à l'autre, du premier étage au rdc par exemple. Elles sont d'habitude jetées après utilisation. La pièce ci-dessous en comporte quatre, elles ont soudées ensemble, elles sont restées dehors aux intempéries longtemps, rouillées et déformées , je les ai poncées, brossées, redressées, chouchoutées, elles pourraient avoir 200 ans et nous parler de fondations , de maçonnerie brute , de boues , de sable et de béton , d'ouvriers qui bossent dehors par tous les temps , du bruit des bottes de chantier et des radios qu'on entend par dessus le bruit des machines.

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HELLBOY 
Au pochoir sur un élément de chaudière , cadeau pour un vieux vieux vieux pote ( 80x110 cm , la tôle, pas mon pote )

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Cette photo date de 1989 , j'ai 19 ans dans un vieux bar avec banquettes en vinyle et juke-boxes au mur, mon cousin prend la photo , mon frère jumeau est à côté de moi sur la gauche. Le bar n'existe plus , cette douce époque vu d'ici est révolue et surtout je ne suis plus le gus sur la photo.

Après ça une tôle de bardage     ( 120x80) , du dessin au  pochoir,des radiographies sur rhodoïd , de la peinture.

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MAKE IT CREEPY  
J'ai récupéré un vieux panneau publicitaire dans une maison en rénovation , une tôle sur laquelle j'ai peint cette mauvaise tête au pochoir 
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Ci dessous un radiant , un radiateur qui s'intègre dans le plafond , coupé en deux et inséré dans un cadre en cuivre . C'est un cadeau pour le fils de mes pires potes . Star wars après toutes ces années, aujourd'hui encore on a des séries, des spin-offs , mais je n'oublierai jamais la première fois , quand j'ai vu le premier film en 1980 , quel énnnooooorrmmme kiff

Below are collages on canvas and drawings; I sometimes use X-rays, a series of vertebrae, a spine—my father's. Creation involves canvases, materials, glues, but also bones, tendons, muscles, and brains.

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Cladding panel on which I painted an ochre background, then added drawings and collages.

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Radio rock, after seeing the film "Good Morning England" the pirate radio (Radio Caroline in the 60s) eeeexcellent film.

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Pièce de tôle , vraisemblablement un vieux panneau publicitaire 
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Dessin et pochoir

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MAKE IT CREEPY

Steel sheet cut from a boiler casing

80x80 cm

Stencil painting

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I was a kid in the 80s. We had a local cinema behind our house whose reputation was built on films that my little brother and I never went to see. We were twelve years old. No, we went to see Bruce Lee movies, with their old-fashioned, old-fashioned decor, wooden seats, and the howls of the little dragon.

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Bruce Lee again, this time with Karim Abbu Jabar during the legendary final shots of the film Game of Death. I acquired this large stainless steel grille; on one side, it features Bruce Lee's fins, and on the other side, when flipped over, his gigantic adversary KAJ.
It's a one-of-a-kind industrial building decompression grid.

Dimensions 124 (H) x 105 (W)

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KA Jab

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B Lee

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I had this wardrobe in our childhood bedroom, very simple and ugly made of plywood, fake old disguised with moldings and glued-on motifs, base poorly made in Louis style or its cousin.


When I was a kid, lying down after prayers at dusk, the twilight transformed that damned wardrobe into the gates of Hell, its jagged moldings into furrowed brows, its doors an invitation to let in every monster and horror I could imagine. It came crashing down on me one evening (even though I hadn't done anything) like a gaping maw that had finally got me within its grasp.


I later acquired this wardrobe and moved it several times before storing it in the elements for a few years. I couldn't bring myself to get rid of it and leave it somewhere abandoned.

its procession of creaking sounds, nightmares and half-open doors.


The successive rains and heats and winters and rains and heats and winters have decomposed its plywood structure into thin layers of wood which I used to make this painting.


I called it RAMON PEREZ because that VRP song was on the radio when I finished it and like Ramon, there were many times when I couldn't sleep, my eyes glued to the infernal wardrobe, unable to explain it with my childish words.

80x110 painting and collages


Mmarco


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As far as I'm concerned, the support for the drawings, collages, paintings and everything I do? That's already half the job.

Drawing on a new, commercially purchased canvas is not the same as stenciling on a scrap of cladding sheeting salvaged from a construction site dumpster. It's been handled, dented, and poorly fitted at some point, ultimately ending up in the bin. I salvage it after that, and there you have it, an example.

I am in the south in Vaour in the Tarn where we are lucky enough to have an annual festival of concerts, shows, conferences, friends, pints, kids running around everywhere (and others who run around less, they are grown up now, they are ours), sunshine, pints still in returnable glasses and every evening joy, music, local producers who delight with local products, artists, performing arts professionals, my friend.

I lend a hand at one point or another and I pick up a fairly thick piece of cardboard from the ground on which beer kegs intended for the festival bar have been stored; you can see the imprint of these kegs on the cardboard, 6 stored on this sheet of approximately 80 cm x 100 cm, I think of the drinking Olympics.

This cardboard is the support I used for this painting, it's magnificent, I'm lucky to have come across it, it makes sense, really, I should have taken a picture of the thing before working on it.

And everyone had a good laugh when I put that in the trunk of the car.

70 x 100 cm framed under glass
collages / drawing / painting

Mmarco

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FESTIVAL

For the support here, I used some kind of construction material packaging that painters had used to protect the floor from their finishing touches, and then plexiglass worked on both sides, collages, drawing, and painting. Several materials layered to give perspective to the characters; one is looking for a flaw, another is chatting and grumbling in the upper left.

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THE CONSTRUCTION SITE


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MAKE

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MAKE

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This is an attempt at a self-portrait.


The support is a large sheet of cardboard found in the garage of the family home, rolled up on itself like a poster but blank of any designs or indications of its use or when and why.


However, when I unrolled it, it gave off a delicious scent of dust weathered by the years, a fragrance of attic and well-cared-for childhood, a familiar and familial smell of potting soil that my roots immediately recognized.

The temptation to create a portrait came to me from this pile of boxes filled with great-aunt's dishes that we never use, glasses, saucers, outdated bric-a-brac amidst garden equipment, vintage boxes of equally vintage household appliances, all in its place in my memories and stored there since I was very young.

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SELF-PORTRAIT TEMPTATION

The following three were done on canvas.


I wanted to change my medium, buy one, bring it home and sit down in front of a blank page. I even used my easel.


In general the support dictates the pattern to me, it's quite easy, it comes naturally, and so this time it was something more difficult, with a brand new support that I paid for, that I went and got.


I'm not used to doing this at all, but it turned out to be comfortable. You have to be careful when handling it; when you put it down somewhere to get a bit of distance, it's lightweight, and you can see through it if you place it in front of the sun. You can play with it, hold it at arm's length—it's pretty good, actually. I bought two more.

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GROUP THERAPY

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10 Commandments

This piece was exhibited in two different bars in Rennes for several weeks.

He was hooked and roughed up by the local, hardy, and notorious pint drinkers. He took elbows, kicks, fell flat on his face, was hastily and crookedly hung up, and was also found hiding behind a bar bench, certainly left there by whoever knocked him down.

The owner of Doujezu told me, "Get it out of there before it's destroyed for good, Marco! Otherwise, make the same one again on sheet metal or stainless steel if you want, something sturdier for concert nights."

I've decided to keep it as is because I like the idea of seeing the dents and damaged corners. In the end, there's no question of repairing it, and thanks to the partygoers for their contribution.

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DOUUUJEEEEEZ

PARLIAMENT

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This is an exterior cladding sheet, stored outside too long to remain in good condition and placed on the building and ultimately destined for the trash.
I retrieved it along with four others of the same size and used it for a series that made up the phrase "ALL MONSTERS".
Of the five sheets in total for this series, one is permanently exhibited in a bar in Rennes (MONSTERS), two others have been modified (the one entitled PARLIAMENT below and another VERSUS) and are offered on this site, two others are in storage.
I see in what I have represented what can be a site meeting, discussions, debates, shouting matches and important decisions to be made and finally deadlines, schedules, schedules, schedules.

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VERSUS

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BLAX

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I went to work at a town hall a while ago. It involved climbing up into the attic to replace some ventilation equipment. High up in the nooks and crannies of the pigeon-filled loft, I found this poster, covered in dust, trampled by some worker, and left there in the damp. We could discuss the symbols, the rain stains that have faded the text in places, the human rights trampled by... well, I couldn't leave that poster there. I have no idea when it was made, but it's a beautiful piece of art.

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BY WHAT RIGHTS

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Ces photos ont été réalisées par Marie Le Mauff, photographe à Rennes

I no longer own the paintings below. I took these photos myself, and they are not always of very good quality.

One evening, a friend came over to my place, looked over the few paintings lying there (I work in my kitchen or in my living room), asked me if I wanted to do an exhibition and suggested showing it all in a bar where it could be done.

I brought my paintings back one evening in my van to the bar in the Cité district of Rennes and met Lilly C. There were five pieces there, placed among my tools. It was a first for me, I thought it was great.

I have exhibited eight times in Rennes since then.

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DUBONNET

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FRANCK.E

100 x 50 cm (sheet metal)

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02436 IS MY NUMBER

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THREE-PHASE

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FULL

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MONSTERS

Il  y a en fait deux panneaux comme celui-ci .


Les figures sont identiques et se font face , je les ai réalisées pour un sound.


Les deux panneaux font 80X120 env. et font maintenant partie du décors du mur de son que les organisateurs installent quand ils posent ( La première fois que j’ai entendu ça j’ai tendu l’oreille, quand les mecs te disent - »ce week-end on pose «  ça veut dire qu’ils vont faire du son-on-on ).


Un beau cadeau pour moi quand sur les photos de la teuf je vois 500 danseurs s'éclater devant mes panneaux. Mille merci aux TAPTATEK.

There are actually two panels like this one.


The figures are identical and face each other, I made them for a sound system event.


The two panels are 80X120cm approx. and are now part of the sound wall that the organizers put up when they “lay down” (the first time I heard this I pricked up my ears, and now know that when those guys tell you "We're laying down this weekend", it means things are about to get proper loud).


Seeing the pictures of the party with 500 dancers having fun in front of my panels is a nice gift. A thousand thanks to TAPTATEK.

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TAPTATEK

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LEGIO 6

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BLAX2

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DD

stainless steel sheet 2.30m x 60cm

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FERRARA

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FRONT AND BACK

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LET'S GO TO WORK

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WELCOME

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