Original artwork description:

“Augusta Mosaique 2 2024” is a striking mixed-media piece that delves into the intricate layers of human emotion and identity. Known for his innovative use of digital editing, photographic prints, collage techniques, spray paint, and epoxy resin, Jérôme Cholet creates a textured, almost tactile experience for the viewer. The artwork likely features the face of Augusta Alexander, fashion model, a recurring motif in Cholet’s work, capturing a spectrum of emotions through its strong, angular lines and subtle, organic elements like paint drops and paper tears.

The piece’s surface, treated with epoxy resin, gives it a unique, water-like finish that adds depth and dimension, making the viewer feel as though they are peering into the soul of the subject. Cholet’s ability to blend fragility with strength, joy with sadness, is evident in this artwork, inviting viewers to reflect on their own emotional landscapes.

This striking artwork presents a black-and-white photographic portrait that has been visually deconstructed and rearranged. The subject's face, a young individual with a close-cropped haircut, has been fragmented into geometric shapes, primarily rectangles, that have been layered and aligned asymmetrically. The cuts and overlays give the impression of a collage, with different segments of the face slightly misaligned, creating a sense of distortion. The sharpness and clarity of the eyes, lips, and facial contours contrast with the obscured and fragmented nature of the image, evoking feelings of disconnection and vulnerability.

Surrounding the central image is a muted, textured grey background, adding to the stark, contemplative atmosphere of the piece. The edges of the portrait are bordered in black, with uneven textures suggesting hand-painted or mixed-media elements. The work plays with themes of identity, fragmentation, and the subjective nature of perception, encouraging the viewer to question how we construct and deconstruct the faces we encounter, and perhaps even how we perceive ourselves.

The use of monochrome enhances the emotional depth of the artwork, drawing attention to the stark contrasts between light and shadow, as well as the tension between the familiar and the abstract. This artwork appears to merge photography with collage and painting techniques, creating a powerful commentary on the fragmentation of human identity in the modern age.

IMPORTANT: None of my artwork is perfect, they are organic, there are drops of paint, tears in the paper, waves, glue residues. They are original!

Jerome Cholet is a prize-winning artist based in Germany whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. Through his art, he endeavors to find, create, access, and inspire others with new perspectives. In the creation of his collages, Cholet most often employs imagery from newspaper covers and social media photographs. His distinctive pieces are completed with graffiti techniques using spray paint on canvas or MDF boards.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint, Paper, Epoxy Resin

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