Biography

Born and raised in Paris, Fef has been drawing, painting and sculpting ever since he was a child. The French capital is where his work was first displayed… on the city walls! Paint sprays, stencils and the Paris street art scene occupied a big part of his life throughout his youth. 

For the last 15 years, Fef has been focusing on more traditional “brushes and canvas” painting, without turning his back on the approaches and techniques that forged his style.

In 2015, Fef relocated to Shanghai (China), which is where he now lives and works. His work has been displayed in galleries and art fairs in France, Belgium and China, and is now held in private collections across Europe, North America, Singapore, China and Taiwan.

Style and technique

With a wide array of influences ranging from impressionism and pop-art to street art graffiti and graphic novels, Fef puts his dreams, fantasies, hopes and fears on canvas. His work, always figurative with a strong emphasis on striking compositions, has more to do with storytelling than conceptual artistic research. Anecdotal, phantasmatic or even political, every new painting is a different adventure and tells its own story.

Most of Fef’s work is B&W. This is an aesthetic choice, as well as a creative challenge: making beauty with little or no use of colour. In an approach reminiscent of his street art days (working sprays and stencils), Fef uses a diminutive palette of colours that he refrains from blending together. This results in very contrasted paintings that remain perfectly “readable” even in a dark environment.

Because of the profusion of details and the reproduction in painting of photographic effects, Fef’s work is often seen as a new take on the 60’s photorealism.