Fabien Cango
Thanks to Serge Constantin, for whom he was both friend and pupil, and with whom he had the opportunity to work and exchange views over the years, thanks also to his peers whose work he knows well and appreciates, Fabien Cango has developed and asserted his own inimitable style. Drawing upon everyday life situations, Cango’s oil paintings are methodically constructed: situating, identifying and memorising details from reality, sketching, applying a first layer of paint, then allowing a dream or daydream to determine the form a particular painting will take; that is how this artist composes between real and imaginary. Themes are multiplied into
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series that interrogate reality in singular ways. Whether Cango depicts a busy Port Louis scene or aspects of his own studio, his small-size paintings open up on ever-changing realities, leaving the viewer free to enter the frame and visually participate in the live making of images. Cango is not just a technically skilled painter: he is an artist of rare talent. His work registers and recounts a collective history as well as a subjective story in rather astonishing ways. Grâce à Serge Constantin, dont il fut l’élève et l’ami, et avec lequel il eut l’occasion de travailler et d’échanger longuement, grâce aussi à ses contemporains dont il connaît et apprécie le