Eric Brandy’s stuff

I’m born in 1981 and graduate 2004 from the Superior Art School of Le Havre, Normandy.

I recently moved to Lyon for more conveniences with my connections related to the electronic music world (I compose Ambient, Minimal techno and progressive on various labels since 2002) 

About my artwork, it’s a melt of several mediums: drawings, paintings, scultpture, installations, and soundscapes even if I’m more painting focused nowadays… 

My subjects are about oppositions or combinations of various elements remaining in the collective imaginery such like religion(Although i’m atheist, catholicism is a great source of inspiration, maybe due to the will to associate body, soul and sharing objects: pictures, relics, eucharistie, sufferings and martyrs….), prosaïcal mankind conditions, primal instincts, civilisations process…

So you can find lot of recurrent elements like hanging chairs, crosses, burial, flying eyes, jesus like caracters, stomacs, sperms, faces, foetus, war fields, afraid soldiers… which are depicted naive style or comics or expresionnism touches…This form a big tank of vocabulary which I combine, following what I want to focus on. All evolving in a kind of puzzle in a labyrinthic progression.

My main statement is that I think there is no progress in art. The ways to express fundamentals like life, love and death can be changing by the technical evolutions, but the issues are the same. Maybe that’s why I consider painting as a milestone which combinate the same statements with an evolving grammar and vocabulary.

Well, how to start?

I welcome everybody on this piece of blog, feel free to ask, comment and make criticism about all wht you see here.

As I’m a french guy, my english cannot be so proper as I wish to, but it ’s easier for me to express myself using that language: the reason is that I feel like somebody outside of me, with a better overview of what I’m doing. (Ok now you’re totally lost I guess)

Here’s a little video introducing some of my works… We’ll have the occasion to speak about that later.