Balthazar is a French self-taught artist born in Sologne in 1987 and currently living in Luxembourg.

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'' I see a bridge between reality and imagination, a path that takes us from yesterday to tomorrow ''.

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Chapter 1 - From finance to art

 

After working in risk management for different banks, Balthazar became an accountant and started to work in the industry  sector. One day at work he drew a few little symbols on a piece of paper right next to him. An hour later his colleagues came to wake him up, noticed the paper and told him it looked good. Balthazar hardly recognized these symbols but deep inside he knew those were not the first ones he had drawn. During the night he started to remember. As a kid, at school, he could not see the board so he had to ask his friends what the teacher was writing. After a while, still dealing with that issue, he came up with the idea of creating his own language by associating sounds and words to small symbols so that he could follow up in class. As time passed, all his teachers were receiving copies with symbols all over them and found out he could not see the board like the others. They decided to place him to the front row and by doing so put an end to his drawing. But this language of his own was still there, waiting to wake up. Years passed and after that day at work when he had fallen asleep, it all came back. In 2015, he bought a book with black pages and a few pencils to give it a try, and after a few drawings, he could remember how he used to see things when he was younger and how he could use it now through art. Since then, painting has become a new way to express how he sees the world, how he remembers it and how he wants to share it with us.

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Chapter 2  - From lettrism to hypergraphy

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As his symbols were his own language, Balthazar created his own version of lettrism before he even knew what it meant. Later on he developed a taste for pop art and street art. His work stands between hypergraphy and calligraffiti, and it tries to show a bridge going from reality to imagination. It always starts with an experience that we all can live as an individual to a place where we can understand the others’ reaction and feelings about it. Each of his paintings describes a situation and includes symbols related to different approaches you may have. The goal is to first create a feeling, then to make the viewer think about his own interpretation and finally to let him challenge it. As the artist says: ‘’If communication is the key to happiness, then we are all doomed as we are split by different languages and alphabets and ways to express ourselves. However, Art does not suffer such conditions and so it can bring us together to a place where we can understand each other and be happier’’. Even if Balthazar' s art is unique, his work can be associated to the artists below:

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