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Robin Kid, a.k.a. The Kid (born 1991) is a French multidisciplinary contemporary artist, from Dutch descent. His neo-pop artwork hijack a variety of social, political, and traditional imagery of the past and present, with rebellious, religious, fantastical, and in some ways offensive undertones. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, the entertainment industry, and his childhood memories, to produce ambitious, enigmatic, and thought-provoking narratives, which question our polarized world of the 21st century. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He confronts the audience with, among other notions, social determinism and the thin frontier between innocence and corruption within his young generation in modern societies. The Kid lives and works in Paris, France where he has his main studio for drawings and paintings and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for sculptures. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

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His art works include wall-size blue Bic ballpoint pen or charcoal drawings [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] and oil paintings [6] [21] [22] as well as hand-made hyper-realistic lifesize silicon or bronze sculptures and art installations in various materials. [10] [11] [13] [15] [16] [23] In recent years, The Kid's works have been exhibited at Le Louvre, [24] [25] the Institute Of Contemporary Art, [26] [27] [28] [29] The Grand Palais (National Museums Reunion), [21] [22] [30] [31] [32] [33] the Halle Saint Pierre Paris City Municipal Museum [34] [35] [36] in Montmartre or the Paris City Cultural Center Centquatre [37] [38] [39] [40] in Paris (France), the Alpes Maritimes Regional Museum Lympia in Nice (France), [41] [42] [43] [44] the MOCO Museum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] the 21st Century Museums in Chicago and in Louisville (USA), [47] [48] [52] [53] [54] and during solo and group shows at International contemporary art galleries, in particular Templon Gallery (Paris, Brussels, New York) [1] [2] [3] [4] [6] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] as well as at International art fairs, in particular Art Basel and Volta in Basel (Switzerland), [60] Art Basel Miami Beach and Pulse in Miami (USA), [61] or FIAC and Art Paris in Paris, [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] 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.″ [6]

Exhibitions (extracts)

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