artist/ Mardi

France

Hubert Mardi is a painter and designer whose second passion is machines and robots that draw! His works are graceful compositions combining a sober and minimalist outline, influenced by Line Art with the black and graphic forms of Bauhaus. The artist’s paintings and drawings question the bond that unites Man and Machine, in a search for illusory perfection. Must a machine trace imperfectly to fit into an artistic straitjacket?
Hubert Mardi (his old street artist joke!) likes to integrate his personality into the creative process. What he watched, learned, felt and experienced helped him find what is necessary to paint: authenticity.
He constructs his works in stages: first the development of lively, random, vigorous drawing, to which are added dreamlike “markers” borrowed from academic subjects – nude, vase handle, hands, etc. Architectural geometric forms come then structure the whole thing and finalize the sketch. The execution of his paintings follows a more consensual methodology. He defines the spaces using masking tape, then applies a thick paste composed of plaster and acrylic. This process allows the drawing to be engraved by hand, using a blunt tool.