"The Untamed " explores the figure of the artist as a territory of resistance. Behind the faces of Frida Kahlo, David Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Freddie Mercury, Andy Warhol, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Steve McQueen, Kate Moss, John Lennon, and Charlie Chaplin, this project does not seek to glorify the popular icon, but to reveal the vital force of those who turned marginality into language, fracture into form, and singularity into a worldview.
They all share a radical insubordination, not as a pose, but as a condition of being. Each refused the conformity of their time, inventing their own mythology through the tension between fragility and strength. Their lives, their bodies, and their images became total works, systems of expression in which existence merges with creation.
In them, transgression is not scandalous but structural. It stems from rejecting hierarchies between beauty and triviality, the sacred and the profane, the private and the public. They understood before others that the image, in its power of diffusion and distortion, could become a raw artistic material. Warhol reproduced it to the point of exhaustion; Bowie and Mercury performed it to dissolve the boundaries of gender; Kahlo painted it as an extension of the body; Basquiat slashed it open to extract its raw truth.
The Untamed examines this fusion of art and persona, this way of inhabiting the world as one inhabits a work. Identity becomes a medium; self-staging, a necessity. Bardot, Delon, and McQueen embodied beauty as a weapon rather than an ornament. Lennon and Chaplin politicized tenderness and vulnerability as acts of rebellion.
And Kate Moss, a paradoxical figure of overexposure, embodied shadow at the heart of light, a silent beauty marked by fragility, who became an icon almost in spite of herself, and paradoxically through her very way of being.
For each of them, the body is a manifesto, a surface upon which the tensions between authenticity and projection, power and disappearance, are endlessly replayed.
This project is not about fame but about a spiritual lineage, those who burned in the light. Figures of excess, lucidity, and doubt, they embody the fundamental tension between the human and the mythic, between visibility and interiority. Their legacy lies not in the images they left behind but in the resonance they continue to produce: a lesson in aesthetic courage, an invitation to resist through sincerity, to exist through dissonance, to turn one’s fracture into a manifesto.
Thus, The Untamed does not celebrate glory, but transmutation, the alchemy of pain into beauty, marginality into necessity, chaos into form. They are the faces of essential insubmission: those for whom existence itself was already an act of art.
BE ICONIC #230710003
Année: 2025
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
KING BOWIE #22000229
Année: 2024
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
BE ADDICT #190020
Année: 2020
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 100 × 120 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
BE ICONIC #2300112
Année: 2024
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 100 × 120 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
NOTORIOUS B.I.G #220001972
Année: 2025
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
BE ICONIC #210091
Année: 2022
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
Oeuvre originale
Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
KING PLEASURE#22000120
Année: 2022
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
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Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es
KING PLEASURE #22000301
Année: 2022
Technique mixte, photocollage et pochoir numérique sur plexiglass et tissus. Moulure Baroque
Taille 120 × 160 × 5 cm hors cadre
Oeuvre originale
Série Néo Baroques - Les Indompté.es