Paradise? Is it in response to the challenges and excesses of our age that Olll probes and fearlessly unsettles our relationship with time, mortality and spirituality?
Mocking convention, he plays upon our inhibitions with irreverence and
mischief, ultimately questioning the limits of our humanity.

Tattooed skin, ageing skin, smooth skin… jewelled skulls, flesh and bone align, multiply and gleam, revealing a riot of colour.

A series of whimsical pigs seem to float in the promise of an afterlife, as though weightless.

A Christ hangs at the apex of a curve: a fall, the first stirrings of a celestial ascent, or the vertigo of a bungee jump? To each their own curves; the rest lies in our imaginations.

OLLL, whose real name is Olivier Domin, is a French painter of international stature.

Each of his exhibitions is staged and conceived as an experience in its own right, finely orchestrated according to the spaces he inhabits and the possible resonances with current events. OLLL boldly captures the public’s attention, and all the better if this calls for a deftly measured touch of irreverence that has become his signature.

He has painted and exhibited from a very young age. Year after year, he has developed a distinctive style combining traditional painting techniques with collage and other creative audacities.

On OLLL’s canvases, vivid colours become matter, texture, relief and contrast. He is particularly known for his portraits, which bring out the personality of his subjects while exploring themes of identity and popular culture. With no limits, he also readily employs other artistic forms—sculpture, reworked photographs, monumental paintings and hybrid works—all in the service of his caustic view of human vanities and humanity’s relationship with the divine.

His references to Pop Art in general, and Andy Warhol in particular, are expressed through the use of vivid colours and his collage and layering techniques. He also speaks of his admiration for the work of Austrian painter Egon Schiele, whose ability to express raw emotion and vulnerability through painting inspires him.

Exhibited throughout the world, his works shine at each of the major artistic events: the Venice Biennale, the Armory Show in New York, Art Luxembourg, the Rome Art Fair, FIAC in Paris, Art Basel in Miami, as well as at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and in discerning galleries in France, Switzerland, the United States and Japan… Galerie Gismondi, Galeries Belair Fine Arts, Opéra Galerie, Galerie Bartoux.

Based in Cannes, he creates each year the portrait of the President of the Jury for the International Film Festival.

Philippe Gourdon describes himself as an explorer of light. His practice belongs to the lineage of the lumino-kinetic movement, yet unlike his predecessors, he uses a digital approach to numerically simulate movements of light without resorting to the motorisation used in the past. His work consists of animating lines of light, distorting and transfiguring them through multiple compositions.

His works are in constant motion, evolving from simple forms to more complex assemblages, evoking a contemplative meditation that soothes the mind and transports one into another reality.