Gallery
"Les Parisiennes" signed by "Oliver R"
Les Parisiennes
— Elegance in motion in the Paris metro In his work “Les Parisiennes,” contemporary artist Oliver R captures the essence of urban, refined, and timeless femininity with finesse and modernity. The painting depicts a group of women seen from behind, walking through a Parisian metro corridor. They are all wearing plain dresses in bold colors—red, blue, yellow, green—contrasting with the sobriety of the underground setting. Their elegant hats complete a graceful silhouette, evoking fashion, discretion, and typical Parisian sophistication.
Discreet elegance in an everyday setting
-- Oliver R chooses an ordinary place, the subway, symbol of the frantic pace of city life, to infuse it with unexpected visual poetry. The women, although seen from behind, exude a strong presence: their postures, the fluidity of the fabrics, and the repetition of silhouettes create a silent choreography. This staging transforms the mundane into art, the everyday into elegance.
Play of colors and light
--The choice of solid colors brings visual harmony and an almost graphic dimension to the whole. The contrast between the vivid dresses and the neutral tones of the hallway evokes the duality of Paris—a city that is both gray and luminous, ordinary and exceptional. Oliver R plays with reflections, shadows, and the perspective of the hallway to draw the viewer's gaze toward another place, perhaps an exit, a promise of light at the end of the tunnel.
A celebration of style and modernity
--“Les Parisiennes” is part of Oliver R's approach to magnifying the simplicity of reality. By transforming an ordinary urban scene into a tableau of rare elegance, the artist pays tribute to contemporary women—free, stylish, and on the move. This painting, both aesthetic and narrative, becomes a mirror of Parisian modernity, where art and life become one.
Women, contemporary muses
-- By presenting his female figures from behind, Oliver R cultivates mystery: each woman becomes both anonymous and universal. We cannot see their faces, but we can guess at their stories, their emotions, their destinations. This choice gives the work an introspective dimension, inviting each viewer to project themselves into the scene and imagine the lives of these Parisian women.
"I'm" signed by "Oliver R"
I create, therefore I am. With this work, Oliver R. emphasizes the importance of creating in order to exist. This work is also important because it is the beginning of a work done around Art Brut.
Psychart by Oliver R
Psychart is a work based on the Rorschach test. Like this test, the interpretation is free. (9 artworks on Rarible and Artboxy)
"Trees" signed by "Oliver R"
Every human is a tree, every tree is a human. The gaze is lost in the strangeness of a desert landscape where the sand seems to absorb the memory of the world. In the center of this mineral immensity, hybrid figures emerge: red heads, burning like embers, whose necks are rooted in the ground in the form of tree trunks.
These immobile beings, both human and plant, evoke a slow and painful metamorphosis—that of a humanity seeking to graft itself onto a land it has neglected for too long. The color red dominates, vibrant, almost violent. It seems to express life, anger, and the burning sun all at once. These headless figures are frozen witnesses, perhaps survivors of a world in ruins. Their neck-trunks recall the resilience of life, but also its confinement: rooted, unable to flee, these beings contemplate the passage of time in a silent desert. Around them, black silhouettes move slowly.
They appear tiny, almost spectral, as if wandering between the vestiges of a vanished past and the promises of an uncertain future. These figures, absorbed in their walk, embody humanity in motion, continuing to move forward despite the dryness of the world and the shadow of despair. The entire painting exudes a tension between immobility and wandering, fire and silence, life and decay.
It is a work that questions our relationship with nature, memory, and our roots. Far from being empty, the desert here becomes a space for reflection: what remains of us when our roots burn? What humanity emerges when the earth itself becomes foreign?
Through his powerful symbolism and visual contrasts, the painter offers a poignant allegory of the contemporary condition: that of uprooted beings seeking to reestablish a connection with a world they have dried up.
In this tension between the redness of the heads and the blackness of the silhouettes, the painting reflects our own duality: the call of fire and the fear of nothingness.
Each piece is unique, I do not wish to make a series. The work is unique and benefits from a digigraphy certification. You can also acquire the NFT version in addition to the physical work. The work is produced on Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350g paper, protected by a 5mm anti-reflective plexiglass. It benefits from a reinforced retractable frame, and a 0.3 cm dibond support .