Alex Pariss, born in 1983 in Essonne (91), is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist who explores the boundaries between painting, graphic design and visual arts.
His influences have been shaped by multiple observations that have guided him for several years toward Optical and Kinetic Arts. His concepts stand out through a proliferation of shapes and lines that he intertwines with fractal and psychedelic figures, playing with the movement provoked by these associations to execute various projects. His supports and mediums vary, confronting the viewer’s gaze with abstract or figurative optical illusions, forcing the eye to decipher shapes and doubt its perception. These "Optical Games" become the result of his interest in design and graphic conception, which he elevates in improbable places. From then on, space depends on the context and the scale of the dimensions he exploits.
Recently, Alex Pariss has also developed an interest in repurposing everyday materials as artistic mediums, allowing him to reinvent their use in a world dominated by mass consumption. These omnipresent and often devalued materials become poetic and meaningful to him. He plays with contrasts, much like the black and white in his paintings, between lightness and solidity, fragility and permanence, letting their industrial nature show through and celebrating the raw texture of the material.
Beyond the aesthetic aspect, his work has a critical dimension. The artist confronts us with the proliferation of these objects, their omnipresence in our lives, their ecological consequences, and the footprint humanity leaves on this planet. By recycling and repurposing these elements, he invites us to reconsider our relationship with these materials, which have become symbols of our time. Voluntarily minimalist and contemporary, Alex Pariss develops a sharp, raw, and singular style, transforming the ordinary into an artistic medium through which the complexity of economic, environmental, and aesthetic issues of our time becomes apparent.