Recognized French painter, born in Sète in 1959. He was a student at the National School of Decorative Arts and by the age of twenty, he was already exhibiting his work in Paris, Amsterdam, and New York. In 1981, at the age of 22, he co-founded the Free Figuration movement. He is also a co-founder of the Modest Art movement, having been challenged in 2000 by the French Minister of Culture to inaugurate the International Museum of Modest Arts in his hometown. Since 1978, he has been seeking local artistic and artisanal knowledge, undertaking numerous travels: he spent four years in Vietnam learning lacquer work, as well as several years in Cameroon learning pearl, wood, and bronze work. Tunisia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Mexico, Israel, among others, are some of the countries where he has been learning from artisans. In 2016, during his 19th “Journey to the World of Arts”, he worked with the artisans at Viúva Lamego and deepened his knowledge of ceramics, particularly tiles. In this way, the artist diversifies his artistic approaches, combining new techniques with his own. He combines painting, sculpture, installation, comic book language, and elements of pop culture, graffiti, and African art. Modest Art involves the revaluation of artistic knowledge that most people are unaware of, bringing them into Contemporary Art. In 2016, he inaugurated an important retrospective exhibition in the French capital, at La Maison Rouge, and in 2023, the exhibition “Archipelago Hervé Di Rosa – Works from MIAM – International Museum of Modest Arts” at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, in Lisbon.
