L’homme à la corne 2020

Aboudia, born in 1983, made 'L’homme à la corne' with vivid color and raw energy. It's like the canvas is buzzing with stories. I can imagine him, brush in hand, building up the surface with layers of paint. The orange background feels like a shout, a burst of heat, while the black outlines of the figures give them a kind of graphic punch. The main figure with the horn is so striking, those eyes staring right through you, but the texture is so important, too, how the paint is built up in some areas and scraped away in others. It's cool how Aboudia’s work is linked to Basquiat's, both tapping into a raw, urban energy, a kind of street poetry painted in broad strokes. Each artist inspires the next, a great ongoing conversation across time, isn't it? And for me, that's what painting is all about.