French art on show in capital

Art inspired by typography and three-dimensional modelling has gone on show in Abu Dhabi, as part of an exhibition of French art.

Works by Pablo Cots and Leonardo Godoy is being displayed at the National Theatre in an exhibition that will continue until November 9. It includes 24 art works that reflect the interface of art with daily life.

Cots is a 2004 graduate from the Paris Fine Art School. He started out making graffiti aged 13 and then proceeded to qualify as a graphic designer.

Passionate about typography, Cots creates his own pictorial database from a collection of signposts, road signs, advertisements, and the wrappers of sweets and toys. He depicts industrial zones, work sites and suburbia. Although these often abandoned places are the reflection of a certain social reality, he does not mean them to be the bearer of a political message.

Seduced by the aesthetics of writing, he makes an inventory of his environment: from the neon sign to the child’s graffiti. Living in the suburbia himself, he simply paints what surrounds him.

Godoy is one of those architects who have inherited an astonishing sense of textures and volumes. Renouncing traditional conventions of geometrical representations, the artist suggests three-dimensional images on a flat surface through a subtle use of colours, light and textures.

Part abstraction, part representation, through gestural and colour-field painting, an original language emerges in the poetry of an infinite world.