artist/ FERNAND KAYSER

Fernand Kayser is an artist from Mulhouse, a member of the Schlager collective; a trio of artists he belongs to along with Yrak and Sven, who have established their studio in the heart of the Mer Rouge industrial wasteland in Mulhouse.

Fernand has been drawing since childhood, with an uncontrollable compulsion. His drawings take shape and appear to him in the form of automatic writing. Thus, compulsively, he fills notebook after notebook, creating a world filled with whimsical objects, punk imagery, unconscious daydreams, and more tangible elements from his daily life.

Fernand Kayser explores a universe where everything merges, everything intertwines to form a single whole, a unique and boundless universe where foreground and background blur. Each element is its own narrative source, opening a door to a memory, a story, a dream.

Inspired by punk culture and bad painting, he finds his sources of inspiration in the worlds of music, film, and painting, elevating subcultures to the status of fine art.

He offers a liberated form of painting that springs forth without sketching, in a “Lost Control” spirit.