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all pictures: acrylic on canvas. courtesy of the artist

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Drawing from the aesthetics of industrial and graphic design, Swiss artist STÉPHANE DAFFLON has become widely regarded for his wallpaintings, paintings and installations which are very graphic and abstract and whose soft linear geometry recalled 50s design.

The forms for his works are designed, deformed, combined and transposed on the screen of his computer: the corners of a square are rounded off, a circle morphs into an oval, a line splits while curving or becomes narrower, until all that is visible of it is a dot. As he takes the liberty of slipping production methods and elements of commercial art and industrial design into abstract painting, fissures and shifts occur in the tradition of concrete art and, moreover, new possibilities of combining art and design are opened up.

DAFFLON‘s colored motifs, perfectly realized and disconcertingly simple, maintain a precious quality of wonder!

And good news: you can view his work til October 30st at Evergreene in Geneva, Switzerland