François Bel was born in Lyon in 1977 and now lives and works in Toulouse, France. Bel is a multidisciplinary artist, equally at ease with painting, sculpture and installations. His work is as eclectic as his inspirations, influenced by street art, from which he borrows its system of repetition and variation, “New Realism” movements, which particularly appeal to him, and Dada and Pop Art, for the way they subvert daily objects in order to criticize today’s consumer society, like Duchamp’s ready-mades.
Bel reappropriates each material, working in turn with nylon cord for his suspensions and wire for his sculptures. In a society where everything happens increasingly quickly, Bel stops time for an instant in his works. Bel is exhibited and collected in France, Monaco, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Korea and the United States.
