Résonance
« Quentin Spohn »
2026
Quentin Spohn draws endlessly, filling up space with flourishing details, symbols and figures. Each stroke resonates to a specific feeling of precision and control. The gaze is loosing itself in it until it has no more to give, in a perpetual cycle of reconstruction. Spohn takes the excesses of the world, "images, signs and chaos" and trasmutes it into visual ideas.
Quentin Spohn draws with black chalk. His works are monumental, all-encompassing, composed of thousands of details that pile up and intertwine.
He graduated at the Villa Arson in 2013, he initially wanted to be a painter before choosing drawing and black and white. This radical choice allows him to create dense, almost suffocating visual universes.
His drawings blend the strange with the real: fictional landscapes nourished by pictorial references (Delacroix, Rosa Bonheur), digital culture (90s video game grids), and current events (traders, political figures). All of this forms dystopian and unsettling frescoes that evoke the energy of Bosch and Brueghel.
For Spohn, the important thing is that the drawing is developed "day by day," like an obsessive accumulation. The space becomes immersive: when you enter a chapel covered in his drawings, you are plunged into another universe, saturated with images and meaning.
His art questions our times, blends art history and popular culture, and poses a simple question: how do we live in this endless flow of data and images that overwhelms us?
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