“I’m making really augmented feminine bodies, characters in transformation between feminine, masculine, animal, and light—almost extraterrestrials.” PolTaburet takes us from a Paris nightclub to a raucous folk parade with his otherworldly compositions.
gallery in Paris, a crowd of hundreds packed into the experimental project space in the decidedly un-bourgeois neighborhood of Belleville. “Family, friends, friends of friends, all showed up,” the 25-year-old artist explains with a smile. “And also I hang out with a few fashion people.”
He grew up just a block away from the gallery, in an apartment where he still lives with his mother. His road to becoming a full-fledged art sensation was as quick as it was auspicious: Local curator Ali Hassanzadeh met Taburet at the nightclub NF-34, where the artist, then a student at Beaux-Arts Cergy, worked as a bartender.
On Taburet’s large-scale canvases, often set against a background of black acrylic, wondrous creatures emerge in quick, vaporous strokes of pastel stick and airbrush, much like the scene from the 1963 cult film Jason and the Argonauts, when an army of skeletons bursts from the earth. “I watched that film all the time with my brothers when I was a kid. It’s really badly done but it’s so beautiful, and that scene is crazy.
With cartoon-like flatness, Taburet frames his otherworldly cast of characters with swathes of primary color, grainy pigment mixed with alcohol. The result is pleasurably disorienting. “Right now I’m really inspired by the carnival and the circus, an idea of transvestism and also charivari,” he says, referring to the raucous European folk parade.
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