Alain Cabot

Alain Cabot is a painter and visual artist whose works are at once visual, poetic and narrative. For several decades, he has been building a singular body of work in tension between traditional painting techniques and contemporary means of expression: digital art, animated videos, immersive installations and interactive devices. Trained in the importance of gesture and the richness of materials, he develops a plastic style combining inks, papers, collages, transfers, sewn fabrics, sand, wood and beads. These materials, which he assembles with care and freedom, give rise to dense, vibrant surfaces, where the layers tell the story of fragments of city, memory or dream.

In 2017, an artistic residency in Japan profoundly changed his approach: he brought back not only a new sensitivity to light, space and silence, but also an immersion in Japanese aesthetics, from the cinema of Yasujiro OZU to contemporary mangas. Since then, this experience has nourished all his work, weaving links between East and West, between the mundane and the spiritual.

Alain Cabot lives and works in Paris, but regularly exhibits in Tokyo and takes part in numerous group shows and artistic events in France and abroad. Convinced that art can build bridges between disciplines, Alain Cabot now develops hybrid and interactive works, integrating QR codes leading to animated videos of his paintings, digital installations, immersive tours and augmented booklets. He also designs short narrative formats for social networks, including the series L’Ombre du Chat et du Ballon Rouge, which combines visual poetry, humor and contemplation on the meaning of life.