No Sense History Mixed Media Collage by Christophe Stouvenel, 2018

This piece was made using mixed techniques in collage and ink on 300 grs grain paper. It is signed by the artist, with his certificate.

Cutting labels, sticking stickers and dropping ink stains.... This is how Christophe Stouvenel called "Kiki" defines his series No Sense. Of surrealist inspiration and Dada, everything starts from the idea of assembling on grain paper, like a child but with the rigour of an adult, elements as disparate as shreds of old papers or scores, transport tickets, old labels, photo negatives etc... and this without any direct relationship between them.

To these selected elements, cut, glued, organized, the artist 'collagist' for the occasion, randomly adds ink spots and coloured stickers. With this choice of expression format for his 'No Sense' (which he structures in the same way, under the same type of matt black frame, and without ever giving them a name), 'Kiki' makes it possible to celebrate old papers, newspapers or books from the 1900-1930s and the 1980s, periods from which he draws inexhaustible inspiration. This series therefore exists only because it has no specific meaning, that it is not limited in any way.