{"id":368,"date":"2011-08-14T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilovemega.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:41:58","slug":"spoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilovemega.com\/blog\/spoe\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOE
Interview with the French artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview with Spoe, the French artist based in Biarritz, France.<\/h2>\n

Spoe is a French artist I know from Biarritz, a city located in the South of France where I was visiting my mother and brother (hi family!).<\/strong>
\nAmong other things, Spoe is a photographer, graphic designer and new school surf shaper. You get it, the guy is cool.
\nMore artworks<\/a> by Spoe.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Spoe

Spoe with one of his shaped surfboard<\/p><\/div>\n

PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF<\/strong>
\nMy name is Paruite Tibo a.k.a SPOE, a freelance artist & graphic designer born in Paris and living in Biarritz (France). I come from the 90’s graffiti era, started working in the skateboard industry in 1999 before graduating from the art school L’ ESAHDAR in 2002.<\/p>\n

\"Various

Various screen-prints by Spoe<\/p><\/div>\n

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?<\/strong>
\nMixed media: i’m working on pictures (in the large sense of the word). It covers painting, sculpture, photography, urban ambitions, typesetting, layout. The media are various with a folk influence. The work gives a speech tinged with folk influences. The mass is crystallized between crisis and lightness, tip the happiness over the edge (editor’s note: yes, sometimes Spoe talks like an artist).<\/p>\n

\"Artworks

Artworks by the Biarritz-based artist Spoe<\/p><\/div>\n

PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS<\/strong>
\nUsually everything start with a photo i take (my camera is like a post-it for me, it’s where i keep my notes & things i saw, or people’s face i like). Then I draw the picture i like and add distortion & mechanical elements (i ‘m into it since i started industrial drawing in school). I’m into real painting action on 100x80cm media, and i love accumulation of geometrics and colors. Each picture has an story (personal or not). i’m also shaping surfboards in a new school way. No fins or rocker\u2026 This is a really creative research, more like graphic design, with rules but you can play with the lines and volume.<\/p>\n

\"NYC

NYC mixed-media artwork<\/p><\/div>\n

HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART<\/strong>
\nEvery morning I open my eyes with hunger to know more (ok almost every morning). I love to read old technical books, looking for new lines or new process\u2026 I guess my biggest influence is my education, the way I learned to do things and to see the world. I’m fatherless and one of my grandad was a painter, the other was a technical manager (in mechanic and electricity). I’m kind of a mix of them both. Recently i was working with Photography of a B-boy kid[\/caption]<\/p>\n

WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Family<\/li>\n
  • Friends<\/li>\n
  • Lichtenstein<\/li>\n
  • Rosenquist<\/li>\n
  • Jasper Johns<\/li>\n
  • Gaugin<\/li>\n
  • Micallef<\/li>\n
  • P. Pasqua<\/li>\n
  • C. Harrigton<\/li>\n
  • M. Brockman<\/li>\n
  • D.Carson<\/li>\n
  • W. Klein<\/li>\n

    A. Rodchenko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    and much more…<\/p>\n