Sans titre (l’Arbre et son Ombre)

source: rousseauaeroplastics

Biography :

Né le 18 janvier 1971 à Marseille
Vit et travaille à Grenoble
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source: initiartmagazine

Born in 1971 in Marseille (France), Samuel Rousseau produces art works full of poetry that hijack objects of everyday life and inject them with a healthy dose of aesthetics. Comparing artists to an urban shaman, everything he touches is transformed into the most extraordinary thing in the most ordinary places – cheese becomes the many moons, fish swims inside an egg shell, candle burns in eternality, plastic water bottles build a skyscraper, etc.

Samuel Rousseau’s eclectic work of photography, video, sculptures and installations is also charged with the absurdity of our existence. In Petit Bonhomme and Mountains of Uncertainty, the artist creates his faceless persona who is ever in a frenetic state of moving ignorantly and uselessly with a never-ending energy. Unsure of his destiny, the faceless persona allows us to identify ourselves, to project our “mental image” (in the artist’s words) and to imagine our now destiny among the crowd.
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source: paris-art

Nominé au prix Marcel Duchamp 2011, qui est décerné chaque année au moment de la FIAC, Samuel Rousseau n’en garde pas moins la tête sur les épaules. Son travail, réticent à toute catégorisation, allie les nouvelles technologies et l’objet, en particulier le rebut, sans se priver de références à la culture populaire et d’une bonne dose d’humour.