Thierry Phazian or Fazian is a multdisciplinary artsist for 21 years as a visual artist with numerous exhibitons in New York, Paris, Santo Domingo, Dakar (Senegal), Miami, the French Caribbean territories in contemporary art. For several years, his work has been the subject of articles in specialized art magazines in New York and in art books of current art publishers on the West Coast of the United States, and Paris.
In his current plastic approach, Fazian combines with precision in his creations, all contemporary mixed techniques based in particular on the principle of the fragment in art centered on the association of heterogeneous elements, in order to create a new language or a new work. He also works with computer-edited images that he integrates into a visual work and also from recovered objects.
In addition, he also creates digital works, digital collages, with all the well-known and current drawing sofware, combined with AI, photos, or direct sketches made with traditional practice on a drawing board. All this, downloaded into the computer to create original digital works.
Art professionals and art galleries from North America have even described his work as hybrid creations combining flat and relief, all imbued with Afro-Caribbean mystcism, European culture and world wide influences.
In additon, the artist Fazian also produces visual in situ and outdoor works within artist collectives focusing their work on performative art, using the body as elements of expression, fresco, installation, bodypainting, and with other elements of the immediate physical environment.
In his multidisciplinary and transversal approach, he produces, writes and composes musical and sound works that complete his world of visual arts. He thus tries to enrich the field of investgation and reflection of his creations, associated with the plastic art and aesthetic discourse.
Fazian is currently based in Paris. He studied fine art in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France and holds the degree of National French Diploma of Fine Art/ Bachelor diploma in Fine Art. His works belong to private and public collectons in several countries.
HIS MAIN EXHIBITIONS 25 individual or collective.
Collective exhibition "Contemporary Art Fair" in the French Caribbean territories 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2013.
Collective exhibition "Surfaces of transformation" with the Agora Gallery of New York City USA. 2005.
Individual exhibition at the Agora Gallery of Chelsea and Soho in Manhattan in New York City USA. 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Individual exhibition "Allegory of Forms" - Paris and French Caribbean territories - 2008.
Collective exhibition entitled "Elements of abstraction" with Agora Gallery of New York USA - 2010.
Collective exhibition at the World Festival of Negro Arts of Senegal (FESMAN) with a delegation of current artists from French Caribbean territories 2010.
Collective exhibition Pool Art Fair, International Fair of Contemporary Art - French Caribbean territories - November 2011 and 2012.
Individual exhibition « photo and triptych installation » Aix-en-Provence, South of France, 2014.
Collective exhibition "Eyemazing Abstraction" contemporary art gallery at the Withney gallery in Chelsea Manhattan, New York City USA, 2015.
Collective Exhibition in French Caribbean territories 2019.
Collective and digital exhibition at the Miami Art Week with Swiss Art Expo / Gallery in the Wynwood district Miami – Artbox project 2.0 - 2019.
Production of musical albums and music singles, sound design, on the well known platform 2012, 2020, 2021, 2022,2024.
Collective exhibitions in the International Contemporary art fair in La Rochelle France and in Business Art Fair in Saint-Germain des près, Paris 2024.
Collective exhibition in Red Dot at the Miami Art Week in the World Wide Art & Artavita Pavillon with 75 Top Galleries - 2024.
Editions & press articles :
Articles of Art Critics in the Contemporary Art Magazine "ARTisSpectrum" based in Manhattan - New York - in the following issues and volumes from 2005 to 2013 :
- Volume No. 14, No. 18, No. 20, No. 21, No. 22, No. 25, No. 26, No. 27.
Publication in the Art Book “International Contemporary Masters” volume IV - USA – 2011.
Publication in the contemporary art book "Current Masters 4" on page 64 - By a
Californian publisher - USA – 2019.
Publication in the contemporary art book "Current Masters 6" on page 112 - By a
Californian publisher - USA - 2022.
Various articles in the French regional and national press between 1999 and 2024 relating to individual, collective or other artistic productions.
Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty Pop Art portrait.
The two models in the digital photo are two professionals dancers :
Aurore Ancele & Matthieu Modeste.
“The Hatching of the Drum Men”
In creating this work, Fazian thought of the paintings and drawings of the famous and very well-known H R Giger when he created his very surprising and particular characters, monsters and extraterrestrial environments in the films Alien, Species, Prometheus... But with these characters with long drum-shaped heads emerging from "broken drum eggs" we can see in the background of the painting a fantastic landscape that could make us think of an exoplanet somewhere in the universe...
“Parallel worlds - Mondes parallèles”
By creating this work I though to the bridges that can exist between science and the vision of the artist who can dialogue with the visions and the fields that physicists, astrophysicists, approach when they speak to us of string theory, alternative realities, wormholes. Fazian.
This photo was created as a conversation between a daughter and her mother with the additional conversation of the artist Fazian with his vegetal body paint talking with Mother Nature.
“Fairies on a Carpet of plant Leaves”
Bodypainting in situ in absolute improvisation.
“Imagine City (installation work in progress)”
Monumental miniature city and work in progress. Installation This “Imagine City” installation is imbued with several influences : It is inspired by futuristic sci-fi sets such as Dune by Frank Herbert, the film fresco Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana Jones by Steven Spielberg, or the Mad Max by George Miller and also the fascinating architecture of the Dogon people of West Africa.
“Imagine City (installation work in progress)”
Installation exhibited in Martinique and in Artitude art gallery Swiss Village in Paris 2014.
This art installation has story reprensented visual artists from all period from the end of 19th century, 20th century and beginig of 21st century written on it. With names of the most famous of Impressionism, Cubism, Post-impressionism, surrelism, Pop Art, Abstraction,Expressionism,...