No#Ar

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Born in Beaune in 1973, David Arnaud has always perceived image as an intimate language. Since childhood, he would draw on anything he could find. Painting quickly became a free territory for him — a way of existing differently. Very early on, he felt it would be more than a pastime: a vital need.

Trained at the Émile Cohl School in Lyon, he developed a precise and sensitive style, first through illustration and comic art. Awarded for his watercolors in the 1980s, he could have continued along this classical path. But the call of gesture, breath, and instinct soon took over.

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His work was presented in Monaco in a group exhibition organized by Art Collect®,

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Under the name NO#AR, he opens a new phase of creation: rawer, freer, more personal. Influenced by the lightning strokes of Basquiat, the structures of Léger, the light of Chagall, and the vitality of the COBRA movement, he composes a body of work that refuses categories. In his practice, abstraction and figuration converse. Forms, symbols, and faces emerge without hierarchy, carried by a vibrant energy. Each canvas becomes a field of tension, a space in precarious balance between chaos and mastered intuition.

He speaks of a “pictorial phrasing” as of a personal breath, where the line becomes rhythm and where colours — intense reds, deep blues, luminous yellows — mark the emotional cadence. In his compositions, signs float, spirals coil, silhouettes appear and then dissolve. There is music in this painting, an inner beat that turns each work into a full-fledged emotional score.

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NO#AR often works in successive layers, returning to his canvases as one might return to a text or a memory. The pictorial space is never fixed: it transforms, recharges, sometimes contradicts itself. What seems flat vibrates in depth. The artist evokes a “mental” space, crossed by invisible forces, reminiscences, lines of flight. He explores the edges of the image, where it begins to lose its contours and become sensation, energy, imprint.

In this taut and sincere painting, there is neither posture nor decor — only the need to reach something more essential. A true vibration. A raw emotion. NO#AR defines himself as an artist “in re-birth-sense,” always searching for a renewed language, a fresh breath. He does not seek to please, even less to explain. He offers something to be seen. And above all, to be felt.