WILLIAM VICTORINO

William Victorino is a Franco-Brazilian artist born in 1988. He grew up in an environment where a taste for cultural products and aesthetics is paramount. His father is a leather craftsman, his mother a tattoo artist, and his grandmother a personal stylist. Armed with this artistic background he integrated the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris in 2010. The seven years spent there enabled him to work on his stroke, a central element to his first works in which both winding and straight lines give off a sense of rigidity and seem to cut through the canvas. Greatly influenced by artists from the second half of the 20th century, specifically the strength in William de Kooning and Jackson Pollock’s technique, he is also fascinated by the strictness of American minimalism, most notably the works of Ellsworth Kelly, as well as the expressiveness found in the geometrical abstractionism of François Morellet. It is however with the works of neo-concrete Brazilian artists such as Helio Oiticica that he feels the most familiar.