Artist Profile Cyrille Chamayou
Cyrille Chamayou, When we collide under a fragmented rosy sky, 2024, Acrylic and oil
on canvas, 59″ x 59″ (1500 mm x 1500 mm), Image courtesy of Candice Berman Gallery.
Artist Biography
Cyrille Chamayou uses figurative images to tell enigmatic stories about people, sometimes carrying hazy references to what is going on in the world and the complexity of having a conversation in our modern lives. His outrageous expressionism expresses the difficulties and intricacies of relationships. Man and woman are often portrayed close together. Ambiguous people, disembodied jaws and mouths, and animal-like figures melt into a fantastical world where couples collide and kiss frenetically.
Cyrille’s style is intense and nervous. Flesh, teeth, and lips are enhanced by vivid colours that reinforce the confrontation his paintings present. In this interplay fuelled with intrigues, couples kiss and tear each other apart in an insane energy and eruptive beauty. Images and portraits can be alternatively comical, rosy, dark, and violent.
Cyrille’s paintings build visual stories that are similarly compelling and absurd, tormented and uncanny.