Florent Bailly

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Artist cyclist, the bicycle is the tool with which I draw my images of
sport and seeks landscapes.

Having practised cycling in competition, I accumulate sporting images,
portraits of sportsmen in full effort.
These images are cut out, scanned, routed, torn off, drawn with the
felt, pen ball,… I do not delay on an image but on the accumulation
and the speed of execution.

When I saturate, I need to change ' braquet' for m' to delay on images,
I seek landscapes
while travelling by bicycle. I see, look at and stops me when good seems to me.
My pauses are dictated by images seen or recognized  after memories.
I photograph, draw, writes my impressions in notebooks.

To carry out an image is for me the occasion to reinvest notes nourished
by my memories of childhood, magazines, television, Internet :
what comes from the mass media and my documents from voyages. I paint from fragments of memorized landscapes. I alternate these two rates/rhythms which has a priori nothing to
see l' one with the other, it's my use of the bicycle which enables me
to connect them.