Can you remind us who you are and your artistic practice?
Philippe Baudelocque, 47 years old, artist, I am rather known for drawings
in black and white, with white chalk on a black background.
What is your background, how did you start creating?
I started doing graffiti in 1988–89, which I consider my first serious and regular artistic experience. I approached it in my own way because it was primarily an exploration of form and context—that is, a way to break free from the genre’s usual constraints. I used several pseudonyms, including “FUSION,” which I still use today.
Whether it’s formal or conceptual—if I had to summarize my practice
, in a single word, that would be it. At the same time, I drew a lot of animals from nature.
In your daily work as an artist, what inspires you?
What is the trigger for the creation of a work?
Everything.
Today I operate a FUSION between all my projects. Black and white drawings are no longer the only works presented.
What I do contains: elements of graffiti, street art for certain operating modes, rather classical arts in the invoice, contemporary art in my approach of the concept, modern art for the interiority, folk and traditional art without forgetting the first arts etc... I spend my time to assemble all these elements.
Can you explain to us the way in which you build a work?
What are the different stages of creation?
I no longer work on “coherent” series, because, quite simply, that has never been my
s my working method. For many years, I struggled with trying to force myself to conform to the existing mold. I tend to work diagonally: I create a piece using one technique, and then, if I find a concept to express using another technique, I apply it. In the end, I end up with works that engage in dialogue in multiple ways—aesthetically, energetically, and conceptually.
I use the term “decoherent” to describe this practice.
Neither coherent nor incoherent.