For Yuval Bezalel, painting begins with the hands, before there is a narrative, before there is a finished composition and sometimes before he even understands what he wants to say, there is simply the physical need to make something. He describes always having felt drawn to working with his hands, whether cooking, drawing or painting, […]
Félix Deschamps Mak is a French painter based in Paris, working in large scale figurative compositions that draw from an unusually wide net of sources: photographic archives, opera, cinema, literature, street observation, found objects. His paintings tend to gather soldiers, boxers, matadors, children, animals, and unnamed figures into the same ambiguous space, staged with the
