Born in 1951 in the Congo, Franco-Belgian visual artist. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris in 1976, he co-founded the…
Born in 1951 in the Congo, Franco-Belgian visual artist. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris in 1976, he co-founded the group UNTEL in 1975 with Jean-Paul Albinet and Philippe Cazal. His work, which encompasses drawing, objects, texts, performances and in situ interventions, unfolds offbeat representations of the ordinary with humour. A graduate in 1976 of the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris, Alain Snyers develops a versatile artistic practice that engages as much with traditional supports of expression, such as drawing or manufactured images, as with more varied supports from everyday life, through his objects, behaviours and words. With humour and derision, he unfolds in his devices and texts offbeat representations of the ordinary and the familiar, thus revisited. Through thematic series, ephemeral installations or visual manoeuvres, he creates new situations of encounter and of re-readings of the banal.
