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Artwork "Fenetre one"
Manufactured by Côme Clérino
Paris, 2019
MDF, plywood, polyester plaster, acrylic resin, fiberglass, roughcast, fabric, parafin, spackling paste, thermoplastic glue, white clay, enamel and polyester resin

Measurements
120 cm x 120 cm x 5 cm
47,25 in x 47,25 in x 2 in

Essay
The city is Côme Clérino’s primary inspiration, as well as resource. He extracts raw materials from construction sites, such as concrete, plaster, resin and fiberglass, and mixes them with ceramic, enamel, paraffin, felt pen, and colored pencils. Following his creative bulimia and taming mediums with a rare sensitivity, Clérino invents new lexicons with each material discovery, with each new technical experiment, and breaks down the boundaries between the arts. Because although paint is hardly present in his creations, Clérino considers himself foremost a painter. “My job is to paint by starting with an anchor in the real, and from there to offer a different look on what surrounds us every day”, he says. Made of a thousand materials, colors, textures and techniques, Clérino’s paintings bulge out of the walls, drip from them and sometimes become stand alone pieces. His artworks, borrowing the material language of our cities, of our interiors, tell familiar and intimate stories, peculiar to ones memories and experiences.