Meeting with Mark Maggior, a French artist who became a star of Western art in the United States

February 7, 9 am. 10 on. The sun already ignores the chic suburbs of phenix. Behind one-story houses you can see rocky mountains as far as the eye can see. We guess the enormity … so that’s Arizona. The Mark Meggioni’s seminar is hidden behind the small white house door. Daim shoes were eliminated on his feet and swing his hat on his hat, the French artist is literally lost in the flammable forest. “Hours I’m on foliage foliage,” he said, brush his hand. Around him, navajus covers, chas Cowboy and Vintage Boots testify to his charm for the Wild West. Hardly in Fifteen, this accepted American has become a star of Western art in the United States. His portraits of cowboys and Amerinian teased a crowd (one of his paintings won $ 500,000). His drops BootyExclusive EFER Sale, Editorial Record) Lithography’s biennes are packing the network. His thing. Ultrahalism, paint as close as possible for the Spirit … touch the heart. From Paris to Phoenix, from the Zenith scene to the Arizona desert … Mark Meggori’s life is planned as a delicious road film.

Madame Figaro. A little Fontainebleau from Scottsdale. The road was long, but it was obvious, finally …
Mark Maggiori. A little And yet it was quite bad. I was up to 15, I have never left France. My mother was a Latin-Greek professor. My father, Philosopher, I was educated in Fontenina, and I spent my holidays with Saint-Pierre-La-ours. At 15 o’clock. Everything changes. My uncle (:Claude Maggiori, well-known artistic director, editor’s writing) Takes us, my cousin and I, in the United States for a road trip. We crossed New York to pay Los Angeles. I find the National Parks, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, US Culture … I take the biggest slap in my life.

What you are interested in you in a row?
The same as today. The magnitude BootyInfinite, editor’s entry)As they say here, breathing landscapes, the spaces of virgin land.
There are hundreds of miles in Utah and Arizon, where there is nothing. Just nature in raw shape. If you want to disappear here you can. There is a dizziness …

In the Bac pocket, you attack the Paris School of Paris Fine Arts. What kind of student have you been?
Happy! I was surrounded by people who spoke the same language as I was, I fed on their talents while studying. These years have brought me discipline and severity that still takes me. I always listen to Mr. Gillumi’s influential sentences, one of my favorite teachers.

You have already planned to be an artist.
At all … My thing was the photo, the video, and especially music. In addition to my classes, I sang in the metal group of the metal, which was called plimo. At the end of my studies, everything was excited. Soni signed us, we did Zenith, the cover Intrusion Power was a crazy thing.

After that, the United States has laid brackets.
Not really. I regularly went to Los Angeles to make videos. Ten years pass with my tours and my round trips to the United States, then they stand out in the group. I was 31 years old. PLimo didn’t exist anymore, I was in the middle of divorce. After that, I decided to try my luck, I go to rest in Los Angeles, I’m ready to eat everything.

First step to the famous American dream.
On paper, yes, but the dream quickly turned into a nightmare when I realized that I was the only one in the ranks. Two years later, I was married but destroyed. I didn’t have a penny in your pocket anymore. I had to return my house and hop keys, direction Arizona. My wife, Petecia, and I settled in her mother-in-law. It was there lose…

I had the merger of everything before me. American landscapes, classic pictures, love for clothes …

Mark Maggiori:

What restarted the car?
A hat. During Oklahoma, the father of Petecia laughs gently on my cowboy hat and advises to visit Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, which consolidates all artists Western Art, From the 1800’s to today. I discover, among other things, Frederick Remington and Frank Tennny Johnson’s case. I had everything in front of me that animated me. American landscapes, classic pictures, my love for clothing … I turned to him. “I want to do this.”

What do we start in these cases?
Recovering. I didn’t have a brush for ten years … I made a few canvas. Petecia had a great idea to create an INSPAGRAM account. I regularly posted until I received a phone call from Maxwell Alexander Gallery, me. They took me some paintings in front of a check in front of a check. Six months later I covered Southwest Art Magazine:We were in May 2014, and the excitement has not stopped since then. In 2019, one of my pictures was auction for $ 99,000. In 2023, another $ 500.

It is obvious that your paintings have this little extra thing that touches the heart …
I want to move. Figurative art allows it. Approaching to your entities as close as they can to put their souls. You can’t cheat. Cowboys, Amerindians, my paint bison really exists. I don’t draw out of the existing photos or images from my imagination … For every canvas I do my own Shoot.

About this
I’m taking a picture first. I want to create a strong picture I’ll see next, so every canvas start with a photo shoot. I prepare him in advance for months It looks like … Then we both go to the desert and I Shooting. I need this human adventure to nourish my paintings. This little filling of the soul is different. I can get back with a thousand images and hold only three.

What is the picture on the other?
I need this little magic. A light, attitude, dramatic sky … in a word, this little thing that will take my heart and feel me
to pass one hundred and fifty hours on the canvas.

After knowing the scene, you are alone in front of your canvas, you miss this program with the audience.
Instagram skillfully filled this lack. I have daily contact with my community, which in turn makes comments, responds, encourages … All this galts me as much as the cries of the audience. And then, entering the intimacy of people with my paintings … it’s powerful when you think about it.

How can you join you? Do you have an agent?
Again, Instagram! The best agent in the world.

Instagram account. @Mark maggiori. Next “Drop” (Ephemer Exclusive Sale). June 14 and 15 at MarkMaggiori.com.