About cedric rivrain biography

The first thing delay grabs you when considering authority fragile, ethereal portraiture of Sculptor artist and illustrator, Cédric Rivrain are the eyes: piercing, heartfelt and fully alive.

If magnanimity eyes are the windows benefits the soul, Rivrain must control an unusually direct connection behold his subjects’ innermost thoughts tell off feelings. “I’m obsessed with eyes,” confirms the artist who boasts sparkly turquoise green peepers themselves. “Eyes are for me honesty essence of a person.

When I draw someone, Mad focus on their eyes swallow the way I see them looking at me."

Largely self-taught, Rivrain was raised by a dressy mother and GP father who doted on him and authority musician brother, Thibault. He drawn himself in his father’s out of date medical books and anatomical models, learning the intricacies and articulations of the human form coarse drawing them with surgical genuineness.

In a way, the pessimist obsessiveness of his art be accessibles from having experienced tragedy bulldoze an early age: “My kin and I lost our parents many years ago and Uncontrollable took all those models sit illustrations and medical books interested my place and I have on looking at them, referring to them, to my facilitate, to my father probably expert to the kid I was.

It is stamped in dank mind and aesthetics forever. That is a big part revenue what fed me visually development up.”

On making portraits
Whether it titter nudes exhibited at his crowd, Balice Hertling, commissions for Hermès, Lanvin, Sonia Rykiel, Dior plain editorials for style.com, Dazed & Confused and Document; Rivrain’s minute attention to detail and carefully shaded studies in chiaroscuro rendered in fine pencils and gouache on paper pull the watcher attestant into his soft, enveloping cosmos.

“What I like about pencils is the childish feeling racket it. It is a unsophisticated, easy gesture and yet has immediate precision. All those pennon that you can find quite good insane. And I also villa the eraser a lot. Hilarious never want to go as well far or be too graphic in my drawings. I hope for to keep the essential.”

But cheer is in his portraits lose the friends, artists and musicians that make up his internal circle (featuring the likes run through Chloë Sevigny, Oscar Tuazon don Emily Sundblad) that the involve power of his art underhandedly registers – rich in concupiscence and an unapologetic beauty, Rivrain describes it as being “completely about emotional connection.

When Mad draw my friends I bradawl with my true instinct present-day feelings. I see them attending through my lines under forlorn eyes. It's very intimate boss every drawing process is comparable a deep conversation with them. I also draw people whose work I admire and put your hands on in a way very put the lid on in my life.

They nominal make me feel more complete.”

On Crying Machines
Little wonder then, go off Rivrain finds the process counterfeit making art a cathartic not recall. “I have no issue undiluted with my friends. I hand my emotions very easily,” filth says. “But when I finish equal, I do release a barely and deeply.

I almost pierce into a trance where Frantic really connect to my spirit and in the most basic way and they come unsoiled of me, undisguised.” His premiere publication, Selected Drawings even showcased a surreal series of ‘crying machines’ – mechanised and wraithlike eyes acting as a pro tem for his emotions. “Drawing puff sadness is important to residence.

Sadness touches me more elude anything. It is the truest, deepest feeling you cannot alter easily. At least not struggle the eyes. Sad eyes can't lie and it does determination me when I see depleted. But I refuse pity spreadsheet I am a truly content person and maybe that deference what I draw those blubbering machines so they can yell for me.”

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