Transforming academic portraiture and landscape into saturated theatre, this work melds art history, graffiti, and graphic design to produce eerie, hyper-coloured tableaux where identity and nature warp into dream-logic. Drawing from Rococo portraiture, Symbolism, Tintin comics, and Félix Vallotton sunsets, these paintings and immersive installations disrupt the neutrality of the white cube with deep-coloured environments that heighten the surreal. Faces become genderless masks or geological composites; trees burn with silent menace; reflections mirror altered realities. While sampling art historical languages, the result is never pastiche but a unique world-building strategy, where elements are recycled, monumentalised and recharged with speculative affect. It is not originality Party seeks, but singular presence, one shaped by decades of looking, remixing, and resisting visual neutrality.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Pastel distortion * Nicolas Party
Transforming academic portraiture and landscape into saturated theatre, this work melds art history, graffiti, and graphic design to produce eerie, hyper-coloured tableaux where identity and nature warp into dream-logic. Drawing from Rococo portraiture, Symbolism, Tintin comics, and Félix Vallotton sunsets, these paintings and immersive installations disrupt the neutrality of the white cube with deep-coloured environments that heighten the surreal. Faces become genderless masks or geological composites; trees burn with silent menace; reflections mirror altered realities. While sampling art historical languages, the result is never pastiche but a unique world-building strategy, where elements are recycled, monumentalised and recharged with speculative affect. It is not originality Party seeks, but singular presence, one shaped by decades of looking, remixing, and resisting visual neutrality.

