Full Name Jerome Btesh Role Artist Name Jerome Btesh | Movement Industrial Nationality French | |
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Jérôme Btesh, also known as Jay Btesh (1968) is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris, France. He uses waste material such as metal, glass, industrial pieces and transform them within a common point, the light working.
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Artistic approach
Since 2001, he has developed a world of "art prototypes" which he called "matrix" (in the typographic meaning) and "light box" (as a kind of clone or slave from the matrix). For its "matrix", it creates from a thick plate bent on a steel frame, etched by acid and then interpreted, as a case. In addition, one or more rollers molten glass let appears a photographic image, created exclusively for each work. Moving to or around this piece of art, a mirror can shows a reflected view of suspended metallic prints, composing a word, a sentence, an alliteration.
His Light Boxes or "caissons lumineux" are made in square blocks or long metallic rectangular units in chrome steel or brushed stainless steel. Transparent and illuminated from the inside photographs are enclosed, figuring the typographic reflection of its "matrix".
About his artistic approach, he said: "My creation axis revolve around industrial techniques I turn from their functionality and profitability to put at the service of liberty and free (of charge) - it serves no purpose in appearance - and thus, materialize a philosophical theme". He get involved with other international artists causes, including for the ephemeral movement "greedy bastards" to complain about the excesses of the Jerome Kerviel affair, in February 2011.
Introducing himself as a "citizen of the world", he exhibited in 16 countries, he participated in several collective artists movements, especially around humanist values and criticism. In 2012, a documentary was dedicated to him, directed by Scotto Production in the "Gueules d'art" ("Faces of Art") series.