The Kid (artist)

The Kid (1991) is a contemporary artist who questions social determinism and the frontier between innocence and corruption in modern societies. Half Dutch and half Brazilian, The Kid lives and works both in Paris and Amsterdam where he has, respectively, his painting and sculpture studios.
His art works include wall-size blue Bic ballpoint pen or charcoal drawings and oil paintings as well as hand-made hyper-realistic lifesize silicon sculptures and installations. In recent years, The Kid's works have been exhibited at Le Louvre, the Institute Of Contemporary Art,<ref name="IAC — Institut d’art contemporain — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes"></ref> Le Grand Palais in Paris (France), the MOCO Museum. in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and during solo and group shows at International contemporary art galleries, as well as at the alternative Paris City Municipal Museum Halle Saint Pierre in Montmartre, Paris City Cultural Center Centquatre or new Alpes Maritimes Regional Museum Lympia located in the former historical jailhouse at the entrance of the old harbor of Nice (France), and during the Basel Contemporary Art Fair (Switzerland) or the Miami Art Week in Florida (USA), among other venues.
Inspiration.
When asked ″although your characters are caught in a very shady moment, there is something beautiful and poetic in the way they are represented, tell us more about this duality″, The Kid answered ″I’ve always been attracted by this line in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde: ″behind every exquisite thing lies something tragic″, I think this is pretty much what all of my works have in common. Despite their youth and beauty, all of my subjects are doomed to fail, like a flower is destined to fade. And I try to capture them in their defining moment, forever caught between innocence and corruption." And he added ″I want to question the audience about social determinism, the thin frontier between innocence and corruption, the equality of chances, or the fading line between right and wrong in our modern societies.″