Boris Saccone — À propos — Slash Paris

Using charcoal, pastels, acrylics, oils, and spray paint, Saccone creates unsettling yet captivating paintings that blur the boundary between reality and transcendence. He remains committed to figurative themes but combines them with an innovative and abstract touch, experimenting with flat and stylized surfaces, abstraction, and planar constructions that simultaneously deny us access while drawing us inward. A similar paradox applies to Saccone’s use of color: it is likely not in spite of but precisely because of the predominance of cool pastel tones—contrasting with almost cartoonish black contours—that his paintings invite us to linger and contemplate their enigmatic motifs and atmospheric visual spaces.

Boris Saccone (born 1991) lives and works in Munich.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2023, where he studied fine arts as a Meisterschüler under Professor Gregor Hildebrandt. He is a recipient of the Cusanuswerk artist scholarship and the Leonard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize. His works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

Exhibitions (selection): 2023 Flügel, solo exhibition for his diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Mein trübes Wasser wurde klar, group exhibition, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin DAVOS DYNAMO, solo exhibition, JO VAN DE LOO, Munich 2021 Blick zurück nach vorn, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany, 2020 Der River, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany, Schanzentisch, group exhibition, Showroom Bergschmiede, Munich, Germany Kunsthoch 48, selection exhibition of the Cusanuswerk artist sponsorship, Berlin Universität der Künste, Germany (canceled due to COVID-19), 2019 XXXVIII, Showroom Bergschmiede, Munich, Germany 2018 Wir schwimmen alle im gleichen Wasser, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

Galerie Claire Gastaud