12-07-2018
Aurélien Jacob, Nono to his close friends and family
Well, ha, listen, I’m from the East of France, and because my dad was military, we travelled a lot, to French Guyana, and Reunion.
With an attention to detail pushed to the extreme, Léonard Combier‘s huge labyrinthine graphic works he creates in ink and POSCA on very large-scale formats.
Year after year, Léonard Combier built a dizzying universe where every component seems connected to all the others: strangely likeable fluorescent monsters and cables join a multitude of “pastel” characters. But there is no visible chaos, everything appears controlled: these complex geometric spaces, whimsical and meticulously illustrated, seem to come together to form a “great and absolute whole”, as if the artist’s goal was to compete with the Internet by creating a “mega baroque network” reminiscent of his childhood dreams and open to all.