b. 1995 in Laon, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Biography
A maker of images and objects, Malo Chapuy uses the medieval techniques of tempera and gilding, while also embracing new materials such as motorbike helmets and designer sneakers, which he transforms into anachronistic relics. He makes changes to late-Gothic and early-Renaissance paintings, inserting modern water towers, for example, into the background of a Madonna inspired by Fra Angelico, or using a building by Le Corbusier as the setting for an Annunciation. Malo Chapuy plunders art history to create time warps and anachronisms exploiting the discrepancies between the religious and the museal.