From yesterday and until [missing date], Atelier 17 is showcasing an “Extraordinary” Artist. Born in Tours, on the banks of the Loire in 1968, Rafaël de TOURS has exhibited in France and abroad many times, but it is exclusively at Atelier 17 that he will exhibit in NICE…
This former student of the École du Louvre and the National Museums (The Louvre, Château de Versailles), will amaze you with his work, intrigue you, but he will not leave you indifferent…
Capable of painting anything, including copying the Great Masters, he has enjoyed over the past 20 years signing his works differently depending on the painting style that created the artwork… He has been at times “Victor Mortis” … “Vassiliev Kougaryne” … “Izen Hashka” and several others. But the exhibition he will hold from July 11 to July 27, 2013, will be under his true Artist name: Rafaël de TOURS…
It is also worth noting that Rafaël de TOURS is a specialist in preventive conservation, art restoration, and a specialist in “French Gilding”… This also makes him a fabulous “Frame Maker”…
He has also taught (before he felt the desire to fully devote himself to his ART), the theories and processes of creating classical, modern, and contemporary artworks…
But above all, he is possessed by Art and painting that have invaded his body, mind, and soul…
He particularly loves large formats: canvases, panels, walls… No dimension scares him, no challenge makes him back down… Everything is studied, everything is prepared, everything is conceived, and everything eventually gets done… And from time to time he embarks on a series of miniatures so delicate that his engraver friends are fooled by them!!!
He moves with incredible ease from one end of the plastic and aesthetic universe to the other with the freedom inherent to our time and the Artist…
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