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RUSS – Jordan HARANG

 

Date and place of birth of RUSS:

1983, Orléans (France)

Education and training of RUSS:

• Bac Arts Appliqués (Orléans)
• BTS ACI / Product Design (Nevers)
• Bachelor Product Design (Birmingham – UK)
• Master Product Design (Birmingham – UK)

Themes addressed / inspirations / influences of RUSS:

• Science: Cosmology, Quantum Physics, Fundamental Physics, Biology
• Metaphysics
• Multiple Worlds
• Constituent matter / Substance of things
• Observation of living things from the infinitely large to the infinitely small
• Vegetation, Forest
• Time’s imprint on matter, change of state of things, mutations, movement.
• Cosmic consciousness, Energy, Flow…
• Place of Human in the Cosmos / Questioning the notion of identity / Sociology
• Mythologies
• Oppositions: Flat/Volume; Order/Chaos; Terrestrial/Celestial; Material/Immaterial; Figurative/Abstract; Rational/Absurd…

Techniques used:

• Acrylic painting
• Indian ink, paint markers, fineliners
• Graphite

Galleries / Exhibitions: (SELECTION)

• Dijon Art Fair International Contemporary Art Fair (Parc Expo – Dijon), 2022
• Street Art Experience auction (maison Actéon – Compiègne), 2022
• Boards to be Solidaire group exhibition (Galerie Agnès B. – Paris), 2022
• Balek group exhibition (Galerie Wawi Paris), 2022
• Monochrome group exhibition (Urban Signature – Paris), 2022
• StreetArt Wonderland group exhibition (Urban Signature + Le Shack – Paris), 2021
• Covers group exhibition (Galerie Fratello + Le Vinyle Club – Paris), 2021
• Russ solo exhibition (Espace d’Art ECAU – Vesoul), 2020
• Transition Ephemeral Space collective exhibition/installation (Abbeville), 2020
• Loop installation (galerie Ephémère – Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone), 2020
• Between the Walls collective exhibition (Atrium Culture – Dax), 2019
• Meta solo exhibition (galerie 36e Art – Saint-Dié des Vosges), 2019
• In Substance solo exhibition (Maison de la Poésie – Avignon), 2019
• Souls in Resonance collective exhibition (Galerie Joseph – Paris), 2018
• Uchiwa group exhibition (Aquarium de Paris), 2017
• Generation M group exhibition (galerie L’Appartement – Marseille), 2017
• From Wine to Artwork group exhibition (Caves du Louvre – Paris), 2017
• Summer Time group exhibition (galerie Clemouchka – Lyon), 2016
• Sputnik group exhibition (galerie ArtEspace – Paris), 2016
• Aux Tableaux! collective exhibition/installation (Marseille), 2015
• Empty Walls collective exhibition (Abacus gallery – Cardiff), 2014
• R.U.S.S solo exhibition (galerie Juxtapoz – Marseille), 2013
• Graffiti Street-Art auction (maison Aguttes – Lyon), 2012
• Collective exhibition (Espace Colod’Art – Strasbourg), 2012
• Oversized group exhibition (Superplan gallery – Berlin), 2011
• Collective Street-Art exhibition (Ligne Roset – Strasbourg), 2010

Artistic events: (SELECTION)

• Drawda festival (Drogheda – Ireland), 2022
• Annemasse Vibre festival – monumental mural (Annemasse), 2022
• Member of the Street Art Rebellion collective (LovePlanet project), since 2020
• Le M.U.R (Vesoul), 2020
• Rimbaud trail (Charleville-Mézières), 2020
• Muralis festival (Dax), 2020
• Eternelles Crapules festival (Moutiers), 2019
• Waterford Walls festival (Waterford – Ireland) 2019 & 2021
• Urban Histories 2.0 trail (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges), 2019
• Tunnelvisie Project (Eindhoven – Netherlands), 2019
• Le M.U.R (Bourges), 2019
• Zoo Art Show (Lyon), 2019 & 2021
• Loures Arte Publica Festival (Loures – Portugal), 2018
• Prim’Art Festival (Geneva – Switzerland), 2018
• Street Aix Project (Aix-en-Provence), 2018
• Underground Effect #3 (Paris-la Défense), 2017
• 10th Art Festival (Aurillac), 2017 & 2018
• Le M.U.R (Paris Oberkampf), 2015
• Empty Walls Festival (Cardiff – Wales), 2014
• Le M.U.R (Marseille), 2013
• Street Art Festival (Cours Julien – Marseille), 2013
• Nuits Sonores Extra! (Lyon), 2012
• The Bridge – La Voie est Libre (Montreuil), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• StreetDay L’Original Festival (Lyon), 2011 & 2012
• ArtBattles (Paris), 2011
• Couleur Café Festival (Brussels – Belgium), 2011
• Drop Festival (Lausanne – Switzerland), 2010 & 2012
• Perffusion (Lyon), 2010
• Carhartt team ArtClash (Zurich – Switzerland), 2009

Bibliography: important books or articles

• Transition – Ephemeral Urban Art Space (80100 Skatepark – Edition Démucher), 2021
• Yggdrasil #8 – cover design (Dandelion Editions), 2021
• Aequographe #3 (Published by Pôle d’Arts), 2019
• ValTho Jam (Published by Alpcat Médias), 2017
• Le Mur – The Wall 2010-2015 (Le MUR association – Hermann Editions), 2016
• Aux Tableaux! (Published by L’Atelier Juxtapoz), 2015
• Intramuros – Open-Air Museum (Published by the city of Fleury-les-Aubrais), 2013
• Relevant BCN – cover design (Emma Pratsevall Edition), 2010

Some favorite albums:

• Rap and francophone music Lucio Bukowski / Klub des Loosers / Rocé / Psykick Lyrikah (Arm) / Veence Hanao / Dooz Kawa / L’atelier / Olympe Mountain / Grems / Le Sept / Iris / La Caution / Alpha Wann / Zoxea / La Rumeur / Triptik / Vîrus / Django / Peet / Cosmic Batwota / Eddy Woogy / Collectif l’Animalerie / Svinkels / Stupeflip / Free Zone / Ausgang / Odezenne / Matthieu Boogaerts / Bertrand Burgalat / Philippe Katerine / Mansfield. TYA / …
• – Rap UK Roots Manuva / Dizee Rascal / Ocean Wisdom / Dabbla / Foreign Beggars / Little Simz / The Streets / Scroobius Pip / Dirty Dike / Slowthaï / Strange U / …- Rap US and Abstract AntiPop Consortium / Beans / Aesop Rock / Themselves – Doseone (Anticon Label) / Sage Francis / Buck 65 / MF Doom / Tyler the Creator / Outkast / Run The Jewels / Beastie Boys / …- Various (Rock, Trip-Hop, electro .. .)Gorillaz / Massive Attack / Prefuse 73 / Amon Tobin / Aphex Twin / Flying Lotus / Gonjasufi / Portishead / Mr Oizo / Ezekiel / Nirvana / Ty Segall / Fuzz / Rendez Vous / Suuns / Idles / Tom Waits / Johnny Cash / Yusef Lateef / Horace Andy / …
• – Piano Chilly Gonzales / Agnes Obel / Sofiane Pamart / Sergei Rachmaninoff / …

Some favorite writers or books:

• Anticipation novels / Dystopias / SF
• Georges Orwell
• Aldous Huxley
• Ray Bradbury
• Philip K. Dick
• René Barjavel
• Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes)
• Evgueni Zamiatine (We Others)
• Boris Vian
• John Fante-
• ules Verne
• John Toole (The Conspiracy of the Fools)
• André Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism, Nadja)
• Michel Onfray (Cosmos)
• Marc Aurèle (Thoughts for myself)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques )
• Nicole Aubert (The hypermodern individual)
• Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience, Walden)
• Serge Latouche
• Pierre Rabhi
• Fabrice Caro (BD)

 

• Some favorite directors or films:

• Quentin Dupieux
• Michel Gondry
• Gustave Kervern / Benoît Delépine
• Albert Dupontel
• Tim Burton
• Spike Jonze
• Christopher Nolan
• Joel and Ethan Coen
• Wes Anderson
• David Lynch
• Darren Aronofsky
• Guy Ritchie
• Studios Pixar
• Michael Arias (Amer Béton (Tekkon Kinkreet) & The Animatrix)