EDDIE COLLA

Mixed media on wood

Size: 40 x 40 cm

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Youngest son of an American family going through a complicated divorce, Eddie Colla draws above all to escape. Later, he decided to follow an artistic career. Initially, photography allowed him to collaborate with several magazines and become one of the photographers for the New York Times. But he decides to take to the streets to free himself from the commercial constraints of his profession. His more artistic collages offer an offbeat parenthesis to the constant noise of advertising that invades American public space. It was on a romantic impulse that he left for Paris, where he discovered the unexpected abundance of the urban art scene. He has never really managed to leave since... Eddie Colla's masked characters appear in 2012, the year of the end of the world according to an interpretation of the Mayan calendar. They embody the vision of a contemporary epidemic apocalypse, which was premonitory. Indeed, eight years later, the confinements due to covid19 have given another scope to these masked strangers that he poses on street corners... The people represented in his works are mainly people that the artist knows and whom he photographs. Then, he reworks his photos with various techniques. Then he prints the result in a fairly ambitious size and enhances it with an airbrush in the United States, but rather with acrylic in Paris where he tends to identify the walls before designing the work he will stick there...