Ardpg
Bordeaux / France
Ardpg was born in Périgueux in 1980. He has been exhibiting his work since 2003 in France and abroad. He currently lives and works in Bordeaux.
The artist began painting via graffiti in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, when graffiti had not yet become a trend in the art world, the artist began working on canvas. Ardpg seeks to color our daily lives and awaken our appreciation of urban art as an integral part of our environment. He is not attached to the term “street art”, which for him is too simplistic. He prefers to be called the creator of our everyday urban life.
The contrasts used in the versus series allow the eye to lose itself in the work as a whole between past and present, then choose its landscape, past or present, to discover a new work. His love of words and art history are the two axes he develops in his work with galleries and institutions.
At a time when everything is just images thrown at us at breakneck speed, ARDPG wants viewers to stop and take the time to decipher the work. The more time he spends, the more the reading expands and takes on volume.