artist/ Marabout

France

Xavier Marabout was born in 1967, as a child he showed a real talent for drawing and painting very early on. He held his first exhibition of watercolors in 1984 at the Goguet gallery in Evreux.

Marabout strips distant artistic universes to merge them together (artistic movement called Strip Art).
Thus, by borrowing from the comic strips of his childhood and the painting of the great masters which fascinate him, he gradually developed a style where line and parody are omnipresent. Particularly in his series: Hergé – Hopper or Marabout uses the voyeuristic and wait-and-see gaze of the American painter to imagine a sentimental and tumultuous life in Tintin. Or again, in this other series: Tex Avery – Picasso where he organizes the meeting of the famous Libidinous Wolf and the women painted by the Spanish artist. Through these cultural clashes, Marabout today claims the synthesis of genres.