Ewen Gur

Photography OLIVER RATH

Ewen Gur - Urban Characters

French artist Ewen Gur was born in a french-german family in Ambilly (Haute-Savoie, France) and grew up in the surroundings of Tours (Indre-et-Loire, France).

His artistic style is influenced by street arts and comics. The characters in his work are sketched with black outlines, their bodies and heads mostly oversized and his paintings never lack humour. He is interested in new forms of figurative expressions. His line is soft and effective and he focuses on dynamism.

Music has a main part in the creative process. It is a source of ideas and energy and Ewen enjoys reproducing on the canvas its inner life and rhythms. As a former jazz, funk and rock musician, he knows how to sketch its everyday life.

Ewen Gur's work depicts a urban world no longer aware of its limits and leading itself to catastrophe. He describes the drifts and aberrations of consumerism in a humourous way and paints with a naive line the destructive foolishness of mankind. The city and the consumering way of life are among his favorite themes.

He paints our urban world with a self-assured line and he is fascinated, as a child would be, by its gigantic verticality. But however critical his work might be, Ewen's approach stays an optimistic one.

Ewen today lives and works in Berlin. His artistic originality needed such a lively and creative place as the german capital.

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