Zalez

Some artists give much importance to the speech which comes along with their works whereas others privilege the object. Zalez belongs to the second category.

At the beginning, Zalez wished to follow a conventional way mainly in the idea to acquire school skills. He attended design school in Montpellier initially, then visual arts at Toulouse Fine Arts school.

Very quickly, he felt wrongly understood, and criticized. Then he decided to go on his own. Thus, refusing for himself any compromise, Zalez prefers to let its works speak about itself. Each spectator is free to make his own interpretation of it.

While being at Fine Arts school, Zalez composed some Haïkus (short poems) celebrating all the seasons.

Thanks to stencil technique, he prints them on the walls of its city. Haïkus vary according to the seasons. Stencils which reproduce the image of Hollywood actresses will come. Actually, for the artist, these actresses represent the stereotype of the strong woman.

In an ironic way, Zalez represents them with a tiny size by reducing their oversize egos as a very small presence on the wall. The city becomes the ideal playground to display in a unauthorised way, of course, its works. Today the mastery of the stencil technique enables the artist to create all his work, in a single and easily recognizable form. He is now using a larger variety of supports: wood, metal, recuperation objects. However one finds in a recurring way the fabric and the Plexiglas.

To carry out its canvas, Zalez uses the stencil again. As a "pochoirist "Zalez makes the difference by proposing a contemporary vision of his technique. Its canvas represents nude and lascivious women. Once again, he is lingering on the depiction of a certain female stereotype.

The artist Intends to attract our attention by seizing the artificial image of the woman who is strongly depicted by the press and the advertisement.

According to Zalez it is a modified and overrated image, which we ended up taking for model.

The spectator leaves him seduced and shares the artist vision. He seems to tirelessly seeking to appease a search, a phantasm.