Description
Artist and illustrator, Victor Cadène reinterprets the toile de Jouy here, we discover three scenes from an original drawing. Like an ode to laziness, idleness under his brush his silhouettes are adorned with patterns and colors, in reference to orientalist painting: such as Ingres or Matisse. Maison Thévenon, which since 1908 has been dressing furniture and walls with inspired textiles, takes hold of the artist’s drawings / collages, printed, they sublimate the woven fabrics. Tablecloths, napkins and wall fabrics, the imagination of Victor Cadène is combined with the know-how of Maison Thevenon.
Victor Cadène is a retailer. Artist / Illustrator specializing in the decorative arts, he is in constant search of unspeakable harmony. He draws instinctively around some chromatic vibration …
In his paper scenographies, a small theater of a dreamed everyday life, 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 and then refined, retouched, placed, glued, brushed to achieve the perfection of the moment.
The paper then takes shape in the form of successive layers seeking concordance, suspended time and the capture of a dream become reality of paper.An intuitive, spontaneous and ornamental work, which borrows from the Decorative Arts by leaving a frame that has become , under Victor’s pencil, a signature format.
The drawing then becomes the model and comes to life in decorative staging; he transforms 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 house Diptyque.
