Emma Iks
Emma Iks, engraver, sculptor and draughtsman, unfolds throughout his work a destructive and raw poetry of heteroclism.
During his adolescence, he was introduced to woodcut and sculpture in Mali, in Kangaba. Thus, the artist plays with his training and inspirations referring to the American artist leader of the art of the duplicate of the 80’s, as well as that of the cubist bullfighters' motifs.
All this for the benefit of a clever mix of textures and abrupt colors, mixed with the imagination of a teenager who has never really left his youthful lands, bringing his productions to the mechanical-poetic contrast of his collages.
Fond of flea markets, the artist finds and then burgain-hurt old supports of different natures, bar notebooks, comics, medical prescriptions… that he rehabilitates in his engravings.
The original advertising motifs, with their industrial rendering, oppose the imperfect results of the engravings which are exclusively printed with a spoon rather than the press, in order to safeguard this uncertain and risky result.