At the age of 24 and having participated in a variety of media undertakings ranging from Internet sites and his own publications to names such as It’s Nice That, Clark and Beautiful Decay, Paul Loubet is a young French artist who no longer fits within the definition of an “illustrator.” With a meticulously unpretentious and strongly authorial style, he makes use of references normally seen in a bad light, such as the amateur drawings by preadolescents from the 1980s and early ’90s, the “hyper-rad” culture of surfing and skate boarding, the iconic characters of crude graffiti, and the very rich universe of experimental European comics. This cocktail of trite but thoroughly researched ingredients has resulted in a set of works that comes like a breath of fresh air for the contemporary art scene, provoking chuckles and, perhaps, indigestion.
