[Luxemburk]

Profile:

Sumo is a well-known graffiti artist whose work can be seen all around Luxembourg. Although an important, formative stage in his artistic development, graffiti and street art are merely one aspect of Sumo's bulimic work on images.

While Crazy Baldhead, the emblematic character he developed more than fifteen years ago, also dominates his paintings, here, he no longer acts as a signature or a sign of appropriation of a given urban "territory". A pictorial motif in its own right, he becomes a pretext for extended formal investigations and variations.

Bursting with statements, slogans, motifs and intense colours, Sumo's compositions do not appear to follow any precise rules, filling the picture plane in a sprawling, virus-like mode. Thanks to these countless details, each square centimetre could be seen as an autonomous work in itself, their sum creating dizzying zoom-in, zoom-out effect.

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Residence Plan:

Sumo's recent work revolves around the theme of time and space. He will be documenting his time on canvas and translating his impressions of Tokyo in the shape of slogans, characters and colour compositions overlapping eachother to create the layers of time spent in Japan.