L’Amour Fou (Mad Love)

by Cyrille Chamayou

“I am French artist with a career with a large Sillicon valley company and I decided to leave my job this year (in 2024) to dedicate myself to paintings. I paint on canvas, using a mix of acrylic and oil medium. Most painting are large format 60 in x 60 in.”

Cyrille Chamayou uses figurative images to tell enigmatic stories about people, sometimes carrying hazy references to what is going on in the world and the complexity of having a conversation in our modern lives. His outrageous expressionism expresses the difficulties and intricacies of relationships. Man and woman are often portraited close together, ambiguous people, disembodied jaw and mouths, animal-like figures melt into a fantastical world where couples collide and kiss frenetically. Cyrille’s style is intense and nervous. Flesh, teeth, lips are enhanced by vivid colours that reinforce the confrontation with his paintings. In this interplay fuelled with intrigues, couples kiss and tear each other apart in an insane energy and eruptive beauty. Images and portraits can be alternatively comical, rosy, dark and violent. Cyrille’s paintings build visual stories that are similarly compelling and absurd, tormented and uncanny.