SERVAL
Since 1992, Serval has been making letters, shapes and colours dance, breathing rhythm and spontaneity into walls and canvases.
The purity of the line, the texture of the stroke and the energy of the movement that accompanies his gestures make his work easily recognizable. The technique remains at the service of the emotion and depth that his hues and lights create.
His passion and knowledge of classical and contemporary painting have deeply influenced his work and differentiated him from other urban artists of his generation.
His work as an illustrator completes the balance that Serval seeks between abstraction and narration, between emotion and mastery. An artist whose mastery of aerosol is world-renowned, Serval has been studying and working for several years to deepen the links between his work as a painter, his life as a dancer and the texts he writes as he narrates his works.
Artist in residence at the Geneva Museum of Art and History since 2016, he brings, through his abstractions, a depth of reflection and sharing that his years of university studies have guided both in the subject and in the accessibility, from urban spaces to gallery canvases.
Resides and works in Geneva, Switzerland, dual nationality: Swiss / USA
Monograph:
Serval: a Life in Letters, C.Jourdain (FullOne), 2021
Publications (Selected):
Iron Georges, Ed.Kouma, 2008 Illustrator and artistic director
The Exchange, On The Run pub, 2010 Featured artist
Graffiti Burners, Dokument Press, 2011 Featured artist
World Piecebook, Prestel, 2011 Featured artist
Style is the Message, KMR 2012, Featured artist
The most beautiful graffiti in Switzerland, Favre 2013, Featured artist
Book of Lines, Next Door Gallery, 2014
Artistic direction (selected):
In progress
ARTISTS' MEETING initiator and resident artist since 2016, Museum of Art and History, Geneva
FABULAE GENAVENSES, artistic director and illustrator since 2018
2020
Prim'art aka PAMX, Le commun, Contemporary Art Building, artistic director
2018
Book Fair, Geneva, Curator of the cultural space of the Book Fair 2018
Exhibitions (selected)
2019
Guest of honor, Artisan'Art, Confignon, Geneva
2018
Guest Artist, the Amazing Day, Milan, Italy
Guest Artist, Vision Art Festival, Crans-Montana
2017
Guest Artist, Read Can, Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA
Group show “Léman 2.0” Cité du Temps, Geneva
Guest Artist, the Original Festival, Lyon, France
Curator and artist, Temporary intervention, ZUP facade, Geneva
Organizer and curator, group show “Help Puerto Rico”, Next Door Gallery, Geneva
2016
Duo show, Serval & Kalonji “Du Plomb en Or”, Next Door Gallery, Geneva
Guest Artist, GGA Art Edition, Bern
Guest Artist, Red Can, Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA
Guest Artist, BTTS, Naples, Italy
Group Show, “Geneva Propaganda” Foundry Halls, Carouge
2015
Duo Show “Jazi and Serval on display” Ferme de la Chapelle, Lancy, Switzerland
Guest Artist, RF Jam, Singapore
Group Show “Urban Art”, Galartis, Lausanne, Switzerland
Spraye l'Espoir, Group Benefit show, Event Sponsor, Morges, Switzerland
2014
Solo Show, “Book of Lines” Next Door Gallery, Geneva Switzerland
Group Show “Post-Graffiti and Abstract”, Geneva
Solo Show “Wild Night Life” Zimmer Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Solo Show, “Paper Cuts”, Uptown, Zürich, Switzerland
Group Show “Major Arcana” Next Door Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Solo Show “Straight Letters” Stoffwechsel Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
Group Show, “The End is Near” BlamBlam Gallery, Zürich Switzerland.
Group Show, “Graffiti Nation” Geneva, Switzerland
2011
Solo Show, “Punchlines” Speerstra Gallery, Bursins, Switzerland
Group Show, The Fence, Berlin, Germany
