As an observer and contemplator, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine places the poetry and beauty of nature at the heart of his multiple research projects.
Defining himself as a "painter of landscapes", the artist turns the codes of the city into an original and delightful aesthetic exploration. A claimed suburbanite, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine is an explorer of the margins, in search of urban elements that escape us.
The artist feeds a bank of images guided by his travels and his shots from the towers in which he has lived, as in his series Suburban Landscape. Although he no longer lives there, his emotional memory and his mind embellish and enhance these memories. He then works the material with a "destructive" technique, namely burning the surface of the paper with various tools (lighters, hot tip). Through this process, his work also bears witness to the fragility of the moment and of the material with strong emotional power, almost melancholy.
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine is a French artist born in Bezons in 1972. He lives and works in Paris. A self-taught artist, he was a resident at the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici in 2016-2017. His work has been exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in 2009, at the Abbaye de Maubuisson in 2012, and at the Palais de Tokyo in 2016.
Some of his works have been included in public and private collections such as the Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris or the Domaine Vranken Pommery in Reims.
He exhibited at the Rabouan Moussion gallery in July 2022.