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• Clouds resembling fried eggs, trees reminiscent of broccoli and flesh-like rock formations - Corentin Grossmann constructs fabulous landscapes, filled with surreal vegetation, morphological architecture and ambiguous characters.
• His joyfully coloured palette and bulbously exaggerated forms are veiled by a haze that seemingly unites and obscures what we see through thinly applied layers of pencil, coloured crayon and pastels.
• These scenes and characters conjure up a variety of references: From Max Ernst's Surrealist- and Claure Lorrain's idealized landscapes, to André Malraux humanistic writings on exotic cultures and Hieronmus Bosch's iconic panels depicting the Garden of Earthly Delights.
• Inspired by objects and scenes picked up in everyday situations and a longstanding fascination with both art history and video games, Grossmann creates exotic scenes that seem to present no coherent reading or interpretation. They simply are, like fables that have long forgotten their moral lessons.