JEAN-MICHEL COMTE

"Jean-Michel Comte’s drawings are characterized by strong contrast, mainly in black and white. Eruptive flights or systematic lines, he mainly works with a ballpoint pen. Immediacy and impulse are the vectors of its expression. Fascinating and disturbing work at the same time."      

Valeria Coloiera, in Living in Vaud, 2018.

 

Jean-Michel Comte (b. 1975) is a Swiss-based artist who specializes in strong, black and white  contrasts. Through black areas, obsessive scribbling, and layered textures, the artworks invite total immersion in raw expressiveness. 

 

Under his ballpoint pen, layers of superimposed text written in an intentionally illegible manner communicate deeply personal thoughts that he cannot express aloud. This indecipherable text symbolizes the erasure and preservation of memories and emotions, creating a tension between the desire to communicate and the urge to keep certain things hidden.