Willy Bihoreau Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1981 -

Willy Bihoreau integrates, after his baccalaureate, an art school in Paris. In 2001, he joined a group of artists and obtained a workshop where he will be able to try all kinds of artistic experiments. During this period, he also engages in computer music composition and improves with the use of Photoshop, an image manipulation software. It is in 2003, in the discovery of the work "Hauts fourneaux" by Bernd and Hilla Becher that he becomes aware that the image is an artistic material like any other. He decides to integrate it into his creative process. He who already composes electronic music from samples, usually creates with bits of music; why would not he adopt the same process with the image?

Thus, a new technical approach appears in his work. From the sketches he accumulates in his sketchbook, he then selects all the photographic elements he needs, fragments them, manipulates them and assembles them on his computer. Photoshop becomes its new ally, the software is a creative tool with infinite possibilities. The puzzle develops gradually. Sometimes, the photographic element can not be obtained, he then conceives it in 3D or in digital painting, then to incorporate it to his assembly. Once his composition is sufficiently completed, he can move on to the second phase of the work.


He prints his image in a low-contrast version, half-tone, so that it becomes a medium to paint. The paper is stuck on the canvas or it is printed directly.
Then return to the studio, where the artist finds his brushes and easel to finalize the work by painting. The work is thus integrally reproduced in acrylic, methodically and meticulously. The painter then reveals the work as he imagined it at the beginning, he adjusts the brightness of the light, the values, balances the density of the shadows.