Meet Giordan Rubio | French Contemporary Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Giordan Rubio and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Giordan, what role has risk played in your life or career?
For me, risk is an interesting notion because it is the product between an event and a stake whose finality is likely to have important consequences. I feel that this notion is thus a source of power, uncertain will and self-confidence. On the subject of risk in contemporary art, we find it constantly in the career of an artist: from the moment he or she begins his or her artistic studies to the last exhibition. On a more personal note, since I was five years old, I was determined to become a doctor. Thirteen years later, I found myself studying medicine in a cold, demanding and socially closed climate. One evening I realised that the destiny of being a doctor was basically a form of unwillingness, of intellectual creative laziness, it was time to stop this. What I had been hiding from myself was there before my eyes: it was art that had secretly enveloped my life since childhood. The risk was there, to stop my studies aiming at having a standard, appreciated and financially stable job to become a free, creative and unstable artist. The decision was made in ten minutes and I gave myself body and soul to art after my years in medical school. This is the real power of risk as it is born from a form of transcendent energy that blinds our eyes to future dangers.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
The art I create has evolved a lot in a short time because it has been enriched by an accelerated discovery of art and artistic techniques. However, when I turned 20, my art took a turn towards what I call “the world of words”. This is the result of the transition from medical school to art, which has led to a rediscovery of the outside world. Thus, I wandered a lot in the streets enjoying being free again. All these walks resulted in creating a link between me and the names of places, shop signs, timetables, unimportant sentences, because all these banalities had become, at that moment, an entity of great value to me. Since then, my creations have taken on a more contemporary form by adding foreign elements to these words, such as memories of travels or various thoughts. At the moment, I can say that my works form a kind of brainstorming that only I can understand and then, to different degrees, my entourage that shares my stories. As for the question of pride, I am generally proud when I think back to my first creations, I am happy with my choices and the work I have done to be where I am. However, there is still a long way to go before I reach the goal I promised myself when I made the decision to stop everything for art. Finally, I don’t want the world to think anything special about me, I would just like to be able to continue creating new things and living freely.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I’m moving to Sydney, Australia and I don’t know the city or the country at all. So if my best friend came to visit I wouldn’t know what to show him *laughs*. I’ll do this interview again next year *laughs*.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
When I read this question, my first thought was nobody *laughs*. However, in a general way I would say that if I had to thank anyone it would be my environment, whether it was negative or positive. It starts with my artistic beginnings with my friends. I learned from them and they shaped me as we discovered art together in a naive, fun and spontaneous way. The history of art, its techniques and its essence were gradually decrypted through this environment. The other actors I would like to thank are the people who have brought problems and difficulties to my artistic career. This is important because it has allowed me to mature, to know how to deal with constraints and to perceive obstacles as sources of motivation. An example of this last part is the rejection of certain galleries when I started out. Finally, I think I owe my last evolution to someone who knows how to contain me and make me grow as a professional artist (she will recognize herself *laughs*)

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