The achievements of Perseus are here opposite at the aims of the contemporary man, recanted and abandoned.
The body is clear; the colors have been applied from the profile.
At the bottom, the layers of painting fall on the character.
The position of man causes to think at Hippolyte Flandrin’s painting, Jeune homme nu assis au bord de la mer. However, here the landscape isn’t defined. The face is left hidden, the signs on the skin stain the body.
In his solitude, his endurance to the current condition.
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Elsa Egon is the pseudonym. She was born in Naples, Italy, in 1981. After she graduated from architecture school, she moved to France in 2010. She lives and works in Paris.
Self-taught artist, she was used to working especially with recovered materials.
Over the past few months, she has gradually moved to figurative and oil painting work.


Personal exhibition (selection)

2008
Mea, Chiesa di San Severo al Pendino, Naples, with the support of the Office for Culture.

Collective exhibitions (selection)

2021
WINDOWS PROJECT Acte III/ En attendant… @Espace IMMANENCE
Centre d’artiste, Paris
ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR CANVAS LONDON Mixing Identities @The Line Gallery, London
2020
ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR BORDERS 2020 @The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice
2019
PARATISSIMA Art Fair 15 MULTIVERSITY @Ex Accademia Artiglieria, Turin
Salon d’automne, Paris
2018
XXX Porticato Gaetano @Pinacoteca comunale, Gaeta
PARATISSIMA 14 FEELING DIFFERENT @Caserma La Marmora, Turin
Festival Survival @CAM Museum, Casoria
Forms and matter of the waiting Art Prize CBM @Českých center, Prague
2017
Exhibition Art Prize CBM, Premio Carlo Bonatto Minella, Turin
Les recombinants Exposition International presented for the first time at Art o Rama, Marseille. Curator: Madja Edelstein-Gomez
Exhibition 44 ideas for viadellafucina 16 condominio museo, Turin.
2014
2e Foire Internationale d’Art Actuel, Pouilly sur Loire
2013
Art Business @BAB’s Galerie, Bagnolet
ELSTIR passerelle pour l’art 29e rendez-vous des jeunes plasticiens, Saint Raphaël

Prizes, Mentions and Competition (selection)
2021
Collector’s Vision International Art Award @Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
Finalist of Lab18 Art Prize
2017
Finalist of the Art Prize CBM, Turin.
Finalist of 44 ideas for viadellafucina 16 condominio museo, Turin.
Recent publications
2021
Artist Talk Magazine 15, London
Artist Talk Magazine 14, London
The New Artist Boomer Magazine @Boomer Gallery, London