KIKO
Biography
Manuel Fernandez, also known as Kiko, is a French artist born in 1985 in Martigues (Marseille).
As a child, drawing came as naturally to him as breathing: with a single, firm stroke, he sketched the emotions he couldn’t express in words.
Kiko’s artistic quest is to create the emotion that will awaken the child hidden within each of us.
He begins all his works with a freehand charcoal sketch on the canvas.
The artist draws quickly; his lines are energetic and lightning-fast, as if he were driven by an invisible force guiding his hand.
In the urgency of creation, he feeds off this adrenaline, much like that of a graffiti artist facing a forbidden wall.
Through the symbols of childhood, the painter questions our current society, where innocence and childlike candor are sometimes stolen…
