Elsa Martino is a French visual artist based in Paris. Her works, built around bold colours and pared-down compositions, offer an experience that is both visual and sensitive. In 2017, she graduated in graphic design from the École d’Arts Appliqués de Condé in Lyon.

Through her paintings, murals and textile works, she favours an approach that invites feelings rather than simple interpretation. Her interest in fashion and architecture feeds her exploration of line, pattern, structure and the body in space, enriching her approach to art.

She has collaborated on numerous projects including creations for Studio 13/16 at the Centre Pompidou, in situ works for Adidas, and a monumental fresco created at the Forum des Halles as part of the 4ᵉ edition of Art sous Canopée. She has also worked with the City of Paris on an advertising campaign and created murals for the French Institute in Singapore and India.

Camille de Cussac is a graduate of the Ecole de Condé in Paris, and is represented by Slow Agence. She has published a number of children’s books, including the famous “KO à Cuba”, published by Thierry Magnier.

With a palette that’s out of the ordinary and always full of humor, she tells funny, poetic stories. Her passion for the unknown takes us far afield, through her amused and tenderized view of the zaniness of her contemporaries here and abroad. You could discover her on the banks of the Canal Saint Martin in January 2020.

Jeanne Macaigne is a graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She currently lives and works in Marseille, drawing her inspiration as much from her artistic practices (theater, dance, clowning) as from her cultural influences – she has lived in Istanbul and Reunion Island.

She regularly draws for the press (Revue XXI, Alternatives Économiques, Le Temps, Libération etc.) and is the author and illustrator of several books: L’hiver d’Isabelle and Les coiffeurs des étoiles (éditions MeMo), Changer d’air (éditions Les Fourmis Rouges), Un Drôle de Lundi (éditions Seuil jeunesse).

Attached to evoking our relationship with others and the world around us, she writes and draws as a poet what surrounds her, as well as her inner world, in hypnotic, colorful images of striking beauty. You won’t be able to resist her madcap style and unbridled imagination!

Clémence Monnet, a graduate of ESAD Orléans, lives and works just outside Paris. An illustrator for the publishing and press worlds, she is also developing a more personal body of work in which the inspirations of Marie-Laurenci, Apollinaire and Sempé are palpable.

Her highly poetic work in Indian ink and watercolor has already been published many times. “Hector et les bêtes sauvages”, published by Seuil Jeunesse, has become a classic in children’s illustration. She exhibited at Artazart in winter 2019 as part of the “Nuits vagabondes” exhibition, in a duo with ceramist Elise Lefebvre.

Fashion victim and illustrator Natacha Paschal finds her inspiration in fashion magazines and advertisements. She reinterprets them with exaggerated expressions, brightly coloured eyeshadow, luscious mouths and carnivorous teeth… Her works are a form of response to the dominant culture and offer us a humorous commentary on today’s society.

Lapin is a French artist living in Barcelona. He defines himself as a “mobile illustrator”, lugging his notebook and watercolors on the street, in bars, on the subway, from Texas to Shanghai. His medium of choice: old accounting ledgers found at flea markets.

He has published some twenty facsimiles of his notebooks, including the famous “Paris, je t’aime”, which gave rise to an exhibition at Artazart in summer 2016.

After working as an art director in advertising and then in an interior design agency, Agnès Hostache is now, to our great delight, a full-time illustrator. Using gouache or acrylic, she likes to transcribe the little things of everyday life, those scenes made up of minute details that we might otherwise have missed, but which really tell the story of our lives…

Trained in the applied arts, it is certainly her training in interior architecture that has given her a taste for telling the story of interiors and the lives of their inhabitants. Close to the “Mingei udo” movement (a popular Japanese art movement of the 1920s-1930s), she exhibited “Portraits d’illustres inconnus et autres petits riens” at Artazart in late 2018. Her first graphic novel, “Nagasaki”, adapted from the French novel (by Eric Faye), is a miracle of delicate sobriety. It won a prize at the 47th Angoulême Festival.

In 1984, Gil Rigoulet became the first staff photographer for the newspaper Le Monde, with whom he collaborated for over 20 years. In 1986, Robert Doisneau presented his images in Photo Magazine, and Christian Caujolle exhibited him at the Deligny swimming pool for “Vivre en maillot de bain”, alongside Joseph Koudelka, Marc Riboud, William Klein, Helmut Newton and Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

He is a regular contributor to many national and international magazines, and his work has been exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Musée du Montparnasse, Paris Photo by Agnès b…

Gil is best known for his Street Photo of the 70s and 80s, his “Corps & Eau” series – from which “Molitor 85” and “Rockabilly 82” are taken – in b&w silver. After an intimate work entitled “Mes jours, mes nuits” (My days, my nights) and “Paysages sacrés” (Sacred landscapes) shot on Polaroid 665, he dives back into the world of the 80’s with “Pola Pool” and becomes the French ambassador for Polaroid Originals.

He exhibited at Artazart in late 2019.

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts in London and the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, illustrator Antoine Corbineau is often featured on the front page of Libé, the New York Times and Télérama.

With his eye for detail, his sense of humor and his colorful universe, you may have noticed him…
His world, that of spatial representation, can be found in his books: “Séries TV : le grand jeu” and “Les villes du monde” published by Milan. In 2018, he exhibited “Villes & Séries” on the banks of the canal…

A 2015 graduate of the Typographic Design master’s program at ECV, Léa Maupetit is a young illustrator who lives and works in Paris.

Using gouache and acrylic, she creates a colorful, joyful and humorous universe where dogs, doves and elephants with glasses smile at life. Café terraces and markets resound with the echoes of precious moments, and the sun shines on nature and its fruits…

Léa exhibited at Artazart, “un printemps coloré” in 2018.

Gaspard de Lalune was born in Bordeaux in 1876. He began his career as an artist in 1898, and is said to have participated in the DADA movement before the Surrealist discord. An author and thinker, he used puns and deliberately absurd approximations to escape the gravity of life. Combining engravings and typography, his ambition was to revolutionize the way society thought at the time. He panache with poetry, potty humor and incandescent aesthetics. Often with his head in the moon and eyebrow raised, he nevertheless keeps his feet on the ground, loves croissants and says “chocolatine”.
He’s a man who fights for the best and for laughter. Not a drunken alcoholic, he enjoys the passing of time like an epicurean, desperately seeking meaning in life, knowing full well that life has no meaning…

Artazart exhibited “Les Pieds sur Terre” in 2018.