artist/ Sébastien Bayet

France

Sébastien Bayet is a French painter born in 1969. Obsessed by materials and textures, he creates works combining fabric and oil paint, giving them that striking look.
After series on vanitas and artists’ studios, he turned to the canvases of great masters such as Goya, Velasquez and Da Vinci. By including fabric, he recreates emblematic works in a very particular style that evokes a violent and disturbing expression.
Now partly based in Madagascar, Sébastien Bayet tackles more personal themes, incorporating pirogue sails into his work.
In 2019, Puls’Art is devoting a solo exhibition to him entitled ‘L’ éloquence des loques’ at the Saint-Pierre-La-Cour collegiate church in Le Mans. This building, steeped in history, resonates with the artist’s paintings, which she hopes will demonstrate the effects of the passage of time.