The Kid (artist)


The Kid is a contemporary artist who questions social determinism and the frontier between innocence and corruption in modern societies. Half Dutch and half Brazilian, The Kid lives and works both in Paris and Amsterdam where he has, respectively, his painting and sculpture studios.
His art works include wall-size blue Bic ballpoint pen or charcoal drawings, and oil paintings, as well as hand-made hyper-realistic lifesize silicon sculptures and installations. In recent years, The Kid's works have been exhibited at the Louvre, the Institute Of Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, during solo and group shows at ALB Anouk Le Bourdiec Gallery in Paris, France, as well as at the alternative Paris City Municipal Museum Halle Saint Pierre in Montmartre and Paris City Cultural Center Centquatre, the new Alpes Maritimes Regional Museum Lympia located in the former historical jailhouse at the entrance of the old harbour of Nice, France or during the Basel Contemporary Art Fair in Switzerland, among other venues.

Inspiration

When asked ″although your characters are caught in a very shady moment, there is something beautiful and poetic in the way they are represented, tell us more about this duality″, The Kid answered ″I’ve always been attracted by this line in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: ″behind every exquisite thing lies something tragic″, I think this is pretty much what all of my works have in common. Despite their youth and beauty, all of my subjects are doomed to fail, like a flower is destined to fade. And I try to capture them in their defining moment, forever caught between innocence and corruption." And he added ″I want to question the audience about social determinism, the thin frontier between innocence and corruption, the equality of chances, or the fading line between right and wrong in our modern societies.″

Exhibitions (extracts)