TOMADEE (1979) is a French artist. His work is irrigated by his many fields of knowledge, which he uses to better play it. From illustration to animation, from typographic creation to painting, from collage to lacerations, Thomas explores the possible and tells unique, dreamlike, and destructured stories. What characterizes his work is his use of newspapers, leaflets and posters, selected from around the world through his travels and experiences. He scratches, paints, tears, glues and re-glues these accumulated images before making forms, silhouettes, symbols emerge from them. Each time he recreates an unparalleled microcosm, and each canvas is as different as it seduces by the journey to which it invites. The multiple icons that emerge and intermingle sometimes sow chaos, or they establish a new order. Her works give the impression of a benevolent familiarity as much as they are disturbing because they invite us to look at the world with Thomas's quirky gaze. Like his "Alice is Dead", for example, whose main character is none other than Lewis Caroll's Alice, which has been filtered through the filter of decadence. Previously creative in the world of advertising, for which he has directed several successful campaigns, Tomadee uses his codes: he diverts them, questions them, and finally questions his viewer: what is the place of myth in relation to reality? His work is rich in a variety of influences: the musical and cinematographic culture of the 70s, the collective imagination... Everything becomes the driving force of creation! As for the artists, he is inspired by Drew Struzan, Mimmo Rotella, Raymond Hains, Chuck Close, Andrew Salgado... But also by those he had the chance to meet or work with: Jeff Aerosol Mr Brainwash, Peter Tunney and Jacques Villeglé. In 2017, he installs his studio in Paris in the premises of the Galerie Deux6 (Paris 7e). The other major part of his work is also the street and the walls... Sometimes it's official like the big fresco of 200m2 painted in Dax during the streetart festival "Muralis". Other times it's less official, when he prints or graffiti his work in the streets to create ephemeral works, urban fables in the corners of cities. Paris, Miami, New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid...
