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Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
A young artist from Nantes, YBA is entirely self-taught. Attracted to art from a very young age, he quickly turned to urban art. He experiments with different techniques and even creates his own tools. Using acrylics, spray paint, and collage layering, YBA likes to work with a mix of flat colors and textures to give his pieces an urban vibe.
YBA paints portraits using spray paint and collage to create emotionally powerful works.
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Biography
Yoann Bonneville is an urban artist who paints portraits of diversity. With his eye-catching works, YBA (2000) reinvents portraiture, depicting faces of diversity in an emotional message of unity. Attracted to urban arts since childhood, this young artist from Nantes experiments with different techniques and even creates his own tools.
From face to face, Yoann Bonneville’s paintings captivate viewers as much with their technical mastery as with the brilliance of their subjects. He uses acrylics, spray paint, and layered collages in turn, seeking to decipher our emotions, our gazes, our freedom, our era, and our society. Portraiture has naturally become central to his approach, passionately and accurately questioning our humanity behind the purely aesthetic beauty of faces and the strong emotions they convey. Yoann Bonneville layers techniques with the sole intention of making us forget them. “My faces, fragmented, encrusted, worn, constructed around the three letters Y, B, and A, composed of my signature and my artist name YBA, represent the DNA of my art” (…) are simply human beings at the heart of this whirlwind that carries us away and is called life. Yoann Bonneville’s paintings focus on the faces of human diversity; through intense gazes, he immortalizes the era in which he lives, the world around us, the street, and the people who inspire him.