about

The Morgon style in a few words?
It is in the "Neo-pop" movement, the modern transposition of Pop Art. Popular culture prevails, it allows everyone to relate to an accessible visual form, without hierarchy, and above all to democratize an art that does not consider himself superior.

How did you come to mix personality portraits and pop culture?
Simply because that's what I would have liked to have in my living room. I love movie posters, album covers. I started by offering paintings of children for the family, then I switched to the "pop" figures that were the icons of our childhood or everyday life.
 

Why making spoof out of classics?
The idea was to make art not boring, and to make discover the classics by derision. I bathed in the  "parody culture like Coluche, Les Nuls or Groland. Art is a joke and collages allow me to slip messages.

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How does the creative process take place?
I start from a digital base that I retouch, then like Andy Warhol did with Marylin, I paint on serigraphs, project acrylic, sometimes spray. When I have the time I do some collages. I finish the details with markers to give a slight "street art" touch. Sometimes I do everything by hand, a bit to justify my graphic background in animation and cartoon. Other times, I do exclusively digital, like I did with the Jocondes parody. But my real pleasure is to mix all these techniques.

Why 7 variants only?
I started making unique pieces. One day, two persons wanted the same Cantona's portrait. I accepted to do a variant in order for both of them to get an unique artwork. As I didn't want to make the similar artwork undefinitively I decided to make only 7 different variants, because of Eric Cantona's footlball number. Same character but different painting smudges.

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Interview by Julia Lemoine