Erik Bonnet

Emerging artist

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ars sur moselle (57), France
163 works

Erik Bonnet offers his take on the superficiality of humankind, men and women with varying aspirations and statuses (appearances, symbols, society, etc.).

Authentic collages that echo the artist's childhood

In addition to an almost emotional aspect, Erik Bonnet plays on all of society’s influence. He builds his portraits through the use/visual interpretation of pop art codes. Many come from his surroundings as a child, from science fiction, detective novels, comics, cinema and TV series. He paints using a spray-can technique typically found in street art, with collages giving way to a background made from genuine old documents.

Bonnet enjoys working with bodies. For him, this is where beauty is perceived, as well as sensuality, elegance, dreams and fantasy, sex and even stress, fear, and societal revolts against the oppressor by the oppressed. Even the "wrapping" of the works is glazed, reflecting the observer like a mirror, so that they themselves become an entity in this fictive superficiality.

Pop art in the spotlight

Immersing himself in the world of pop art, following directly on from Andy Warhol and his use of iconic figures like Marilyn Monroe, Erik Bonnet has constructed his own unique world and visual identity.

His artworks are immediately recognisable, a patchwork background of old papers, yellowed with time, and, on top, drawings that seem, like Lichtenstein’s work, to have been taken straight out of a comic – but which are in fact drawn meticulously by hand.

ARTISTIC TRAINING: { Ecole d’ Art Contemporain de Luxembourg }
(2001- 2003)

Member of the Artists’ Collectives: "ART TOTAL MULTIMEDIA (Canada)" since 2007

"BLACK SESSION (Germany)" since 2010, "CUBE LE CORBUSIER SPACE" since 2014

Forecasts for 2019: (++ surprises to come...) Art Off 3, Vannes / Espace Cube Le Corbusier, Briey en forêt // Baz’Art 5, Epinal Ptit Baz’Art, Nancy // Art Design Gallery, Guéthary // Cuest Art, Virton (B) Munich Art Fair, Munich (D) // Salon du Petit Format, Toulouse // Galerie Beim Angel, Luxembourg // Espace Carrefour, Metz...

2018 :

Espace Cube Le Corbusier, Briey en forêt // Salon ART 3F, Metz // Galerie du Parlement Européen, Luxembourg // Baz’Art 4, Epinal // Galerie New Atelier Design, Warsaw (P) // Ptit Baz’Art, Nancy // Bol d’art, Dunkerque // Art Design Gallery, Guétary-Biarritz // Munich Art Fair, Munich (D) // Salon du Petit Format, Toulouse // Galerie Beim Angel, Luxembourg // Espace Carrefour, Metz.........

2017:
Le Sofitel, Luxembourg // Le " 603 " Le Corbusier, Briey // Espace contemporain galerie, Québec // Bibliothèque Henri Lévesque, Québec // Salon Art Lenster, Luxembourg // ART 3F, Metz // Salon Deod’art St dié, St Dié // Baz’Art 3, Epinal // Galerie New Atelier Design, Varsovie // F.I.A.C. Libr’art, Libramont // Art Design Gallery, Guétary-Biarritz // Salon ART MUC, Munich // Galerie du lavoir, Rodemack // Zone 47, Perpignan // Art in Esch, Luxembourg

2016 : Artists’ itinerary, Metz // Hautvillers - Champagne // Gallery of the European Parliament, Luxembourg // Célina Galerie, Luxembourg // Le Boucl’Art, Nancy // Foire d’Art Contemporain Art 3F, Lyon + Metz // Salon Piece Unique, St Germain en Laye // Les Arts Rouges, Verdun // Les Jardins du Mess, Verdun // Espace Cube Le Corbusier, Briey // Le 603 Le Corbusier, Briey // Galerie de créateurs Bleu Jasmin, Metz // Baz’Art, Epinal

Erik Bonnet's artwork

Mlle Maurel

$672

Mixed media (50 x 50 cm)