Nelio

The French artist Nelio has developed his skills throughout his travels, which have shaped him into a versatile visual artist, constantly seeking learning and experimentation.

His practice revolves around two main aspects: engaging with the public space through murals, spontaneous paintings, and installations, and working in his studio with paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, and sculptures. His early style, characterized by typographic work and simplified figuration, gradually evolved into an abstract pictorial universe.

His geometric logic, stemming from his interests in science, graphic design, graffiti, and architecture, remains evident in most of his works. However, this system transforms as he encounters new contextual parameters, discoveries, and experiments.

His artistic approach primarily centers on a dynamic tension between opposing elements and concepts. Contradictions and doubts enrich his practice, just as the notions of wandering and detours are significant stages in his creative journey.

By delving into the transient nature inherent in outdoor paintings, he began to use the idea of destruction as a creative generator. This notably led him to experiment with the notion of the formless, parallel to his foundational works focused on form. Abstraction allows him to facilitate a dialogue between his diverse sources of inspiration, exploring the realm of possibilities between minimalism and expressionism.