Painted Masks by FABIEN DELAUBE

Fabien Delaube was born in Bordeaux, France in 1973. He studied photography and audiovisual before finally turning to fine arts and applied & decorative arts. He currently works as a decorator while exhibiting his paintings between Paris and his hometown.

He was always interested in African masks as well as masks from other ancient civilizations... especially fascinated by their "magic" powers.

What interests and surprises Fabien in everyday life, is the way in which a lot of people hide their real personalities or their profound feelings, behind a kind of permanent mask. Once this mask is raised or should for any reason fall off, there is always a fragile and delicate human being behind it. He paints faces because (in his own words)... "for me, there is nothing more expressive as well as the feelings which pass by the glance. As when you look yourself in the mirror, you can take place in the skin of my characters and feel their feelings which I wanted to express. Masks represent a kind of perfection, something divine, of more hardly than my characters. The view of these masks frightens people and impose total respect. Finally, perhaps when my characters get old and when they have found their own roads in life, their masks are starting to disappear..."

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