BE ICONIC #230710003
Year: 2023
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
BE ICONIC #210091
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
BE ICONIC # 22000225
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
KING PLEASURE #21000301
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
BE ICONIC # 190020
Year: 2020
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
BE ICONIC #2300112
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 100 × 120 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
BE ICONIC #2300030
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 100 × 120 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
KATE ADDICT #210006
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed
"The Untamed " explores the figure of the artist as a territory of resistance. Behind the faces of Frida Kahlo, David Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Freddie Mercury, Andy Warhol, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Steve McQueen, Kate Moss, John Lennon, and Charlie Chaplin, this project does not seek to glorify the popular icon, but to reveal the vital force of those who turned marginality into language, fracture into form, and singularity into a worldview.
They all share a radical insubordination, not as a pose, but as a condition of being. Each refused the conformity of their time, inventing their own mythology through the tension between fragility and strength. Their lives, their bodies, and their images became total works, systems of expression in which existence merges with creation.
In them, transgression is not scandalous but structural. It stems from rejecting hierarchies between beauty and triviality, the sacred and the profane, the private and the public. They understood before others that the image, in its power of diffusion and distortion, could become a raw artistic material. Warhol reproduced it to the point of exhaustion; Bowie and Mercury performed it to dissolve the boundaries of gender; Kahlo painted it as an extension of the body; Basquiat slashed it open to extract its raw truth.
The Untamed examines this fusion of art and persona, this way of inhabiting the world as one inhabits a work. Identity becomes a medium; self-staging, a necessity. Bardot, Delon, and McQueen embodied beauty as a weapon rather than an ornament. Lennon and Chaplin politicized tenderness and vulnerability as acts of rebellion.
And Kate Moss, a paradoxical figure of overexposure, embodied shadow at the heart of light, a silent beauty marked by fragility, who became an icon almost in spite of herself, and paradoxically through her very way of being.
For each of them, the body is a manifesto, a surface upon which the tensions between authenticity and projection, power and disappearance, are endlessly replayed.
This project is not about fame but about a spiritual lineage, those who burned in the light. Figures of excess, lucidity, and doubt, they embody the fundamental tension between the human and the mythic, between visibility and interiority. Their legacy lies not in the images they left behind but in the resonance they continue to produce: a lesson in aesthetic courage, an invitation to resist through sincerity, to exist through dissonance, to turn one’s fracture into a manifesto.
Thus, The Untamed does not celebrate glory, but transmutation, the alchemy of pain into beauty, marginality into necessity, chaos into form. They are the faces of essential insubmission: those for whom existence itself was already an act of art.
BE ICONIC #220001972
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Inner Queens
BOWIE #22000229
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Inner Queens
KING PLEASURE #220000120
Year: 2022
Mixed media, photocollage and digital stencil on plexiglass and fabric. Baroque moulding
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm unframed
Original artwork
Series: Neo-Baroques. The Untamed