Fkdl biography
FKDL (Born ) is active/lives in France.!
FRANCK DUVAL a.k.a FKDL
Franck Duval a.k.a FKDL (the first and last letters of his name) is a multidisciplinary artist. He has studied at famous French fashion design School Studio Bercot, he also attended Annie Fratellini’s National Circus School; he used to be an actor while he started his painting career.
Franck Duval aka FKDL is a French painter and street artist who combines great silhouette movements with vibrant color collages in his works.
Surely his artistic journey into fashion, circus and acting has influenced his graceful dancing characters whose silhouettes are embellished with delicate hand-ripped collages of images from old magazines. FKDL has a way in playing with geometrical colour blocks and scales.
From afar, the eye is attracted by his graphic and colourful silhouettes, and on a second level, when approaching his pieces, you can discover an intricate and hypnotizing pell-mell of charaters from another time. He uses magazines from the 1920’s to the 1970’s which he as been collecting for the past 30 years.
When I visited him, he had just received 2,200 copies of a forgotten m