Victor Cadene

Self-taught and passionate about colors, Victor Cadene has seduced the world of decoration with his meticulous and enchanting collages. We discover, as if projected in elegant dollhouses, interiors crossed by the history of decorative styles that the artist mixes as he pleases. Gaudí crossed paths with the Nabis, while the Flandrin brothers, painters who created the decorations for the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church, conversed with the set designer and costume creator Christian Bérard. Spotted by Hermès, who commissioned him to create window displays in 2018, the young virtuoso is multiplying his collaborations with Diptyque, the carpet manufacturer Pinton and the Mériguet-Carrère workshop. His projects? To open a place for artists' residencies near Fontainebleau and to offer decorative panels depicting his world in large format.

He draws instinctively around some chromatic vibration ... In his paper scenographies, a little theater of a dream daily, he imagines miniature and baroque architectures where opulent patterns and colors reign supreme. Each element is drawn by hand before being cut with a scalpel then refined, retouched, laid, glued, touched to reach the perfection of the moment. The paper then takes shape in the form of successive layers seeking concordance, time suspended and the capture of a dream come true of paper. An intuitive, spontaneous and ornamental work, which borrows from the Decorative Arts out of a frame, which has become, under Victor's pencil, a signature format. The drawing then becomes the model and comes to life in decorative settings; it is transformed into wallpapers, fabrics and dreamlike scenographies, like his collaborations for the Parisian windows of Shang Xia or with his series of exclusive illustrations for the Diptyque house.