Sylvain Croci-Torti
Born in 1984 in Aigle, Switzerland. He lives in Villars-sur-Ollon, works in Martigny and Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sylvain Croci-Torti's large monochromes bristle with contradictions: patiently prepared canvases versus swift execution in one radical gesture. The act of painting itself is done using a screen printing machine in three swaths, from bottom to top and left to right. Sylvain Croci-Torti is in charge of the screen printing workshop at ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) and has shown his work alongside Guy Meldem at Les Mouettes exhibition center in Vevey in 2015.