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Lives and works in Liège

Ptit Marc studied at the Beaux-Arts in Liège and began exhibiting in the 90s. With a few friends, he launched into alternative comics and autofiction. A founding pillar of the fanzine Mycose, which won several awards, including one at Angoulême in 2006. The adventure lasts 10 years. Then, autobiographical introspection had had its day, and Ptit Marc freed himself from the constraints of boxes. His painting took on more space, drawing inspiration from everyday life and popular culture. Since then, Ptit Marc has been building his own world: a universe somewhere between comics and street art, where he meets people like us.

Ptit Marc paints as he breathes. His nimble style veers between Liège-style punk and free narrative figuration, drawing inspiration from everyday life and the people he meets. If he sketches them in their simplicity – and sometimes their monstrosity – it’s always with a sense of humor and otherness. As he puts it, “We’re all people like us!

Ptit Marc is a stakhanovist of free figuration. The artist, who defines himself as a visual artist rather than a painter, has turned his contemporaries into an inexhaustible narrative object. Ptit Marc recounts what he sees of people, everywhere, all the time, with humor and without mockery. Prolific, he has no shortage of sources of inspiration… or media. Compiled on canvas, wood, glass or skateboard, his paintings, sculptures and objects of all kinds are teeming with detail and play on contrasting complements. – Maxime Arnaud