Zoer (b.1985) is an Italian artist, painter and product designer and lives and works between Paris and Saint-Martin Vesubiwas. Zoer received a master degree of Product Design at Strate School of Design in 2008. Travelling the world for painting, he settles within a landscape, imbuing it with a new point of view. Working on street murals internationally, his artistic language cultivates paradox; a violent subject can resonate with the delicacy of the render – precision justifying disorder, realism approaching utopia.
The use of a pseudonym comes from the desire to privilege the creation rather than the identity. As a Figurative painter, he uses acrylic and oil on canvas or on site-specific painting to question the future of industrial substances. Trained as a product designer, the study of the object has determined his plastic research: understanding their philosophy, their function, and their determination leads him to capture in painting their life and after-life. At the time of the materials used in the industry are thought to be recycled; at the time of accelerated consumption and when the obsolescence is programmed, he paints the decline of shapes and materials made by man. In a society defined by material possessions, what place and which future do we give to physical objects? From the portrait of objects to the trace question, his work tries to explore the inevitable resurgence of forms and matters.
His work has been exhibited at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon. He is also collected by the artist Takashi Murakami. He was the curator of 2KM3 Saint-Gervais Contemporary Art Platform from 2017 to 2018.
