Ofer Josef was born in 1965 and currently works between Portugal and Brazil. The youngest student admitted to the fine arts in Paris at the age of 17, he lived between France and Spain during artist residencies. He spent around ten years in the Amazon during which, far from men and in harmony with the plant and animal world, an imaginary world was born between nightmare and despair, but where the light always shines. His ink drawings reveal an inner world in which human comedy is always on the edge of tragedy and his very detailed work makes us think of that of Francisco de Goya or even Gustave Doré, Félicien Rops and Odilon Redon. Around forty works will be exhibited at the Orangerie, from a demanding private collection, before being presented in London during the autumn.
A catalog will be published for this exhibition.
