About The Artist

I am a painter who takes colors from used paper material, for whom brushes strokes are pieces of torn posters or magazines. Art is for me a process of sublimation. It is most challengingly achieved using plain, everyday life material. Lately my work has been dominated by the usage of Paris streets posters. I am attracted by the dimension of ‘humanity’ I perceive in this material. It was once on a wall to express something. It was destroyed by life. I offer them an artistic redemption! Graphically my work aims at developing fragile harmonies, the equivalent of a writing style for a novelist. Contacs: Tel: 33 6 09 27 14 27 christian.gastaldi@yahoo.fr Blog: http://christiangastaldi.centerblog.net Web: http://christiangastaldi.webgarden.com Commission Work: 2012: 2.4 x 7.5 m collage on the wall of a new hotel (Vincci Bit) in Barcelona 22@ rehabilitated area. Solo Exhibitions: 2012: Redemption - Center of Contemporary Art - Baku - Azerbaijan 2012: Artista invitado - Beriestain Interiores - Barcelona - Spain Solo Publication: 2013: Cover of RiverLit magazine n°10 (US Art and Litterature) 2011: Poems from inaudible voices, RedFox press - Collection ‘C’est mon Dada’ n°62 Residency: 2014: Can Serrat - El Bruc-Barcelona - Spain 2013: Les Vendémaires - St Mathieu de Tréviers - France Collective Exhibitions 2013: Reflection - French Embassy - Baku - Azerbaijan 2013: un R de Rue - Galerie Plurielle - Sète - France 2013: Story of the creative - Angel Orelsans foundation - NY -USA 2013: La liberté est un collage - Czech Cultural Center - Paris - France 2012: Collage Centennial – Ontological museum – Saragosa Springs (Colorado) 2012: Festival du Touquet - FRance 2012: The Brick Lane Gallery - Art in Mind – London - UK 2010: L’Art du collage dans tous ses états - Galerie Loft - Paris (France) 2010: Arteum - L’Art au jardin & Abstractions– Sénart & Paris La Défense (France) 2009: Levall’art - Galerie l’Escale – Levallois (France) 2005-08: Salon du collage contemporain, Paris Belleville (France) Collective Publication: 2014-13: RiverLit n°13, n°122 2012: Hommage à Jiri Kolar - Pj Varet Editions 2009: Nature Art Today - Editions Patou 2009-10: Collagista issues N°8, N°2 2007-09: L’art du collage à l’aube du XXI siècle - PJ Varet - Volumes I, II et III - Editions Artcolle