artist/ SKIMA

FRANCE

Maxime Thevenet, alias Skima, was born in 1994 in French Burgundy.
At the Academy of Applied Arts, his artistic education opened him up to disciplines combining arts and crafts, design and scenography. Beyond the learning of various techniques, he forges his personal culture and creative process.

From his passion for woodworking, Skima has kept the memory of the grain and its subtlety. He also kept his favorite tool: the black stone, the carpenters’ pencil that was used to trace cuts.
Formerly made from ampelite, black chalk/stone was used by Renaissance artists to give a deep and matte line to their sketches.
Today black stone is composed of carbon and clay. It highlights the contours of a face and underlines silky lines. Skima knows how to vary the nuances to obtain the misty blur of a disheveled fur.