Heracles saga

It is many collections of more than 150 paintings,
laques and airbrush drawings around the adventures
of the Heracles greek hero personality.

I started these works in 1983 for a computer game
for a french editor.
this project did not come out.
The american distributors
interested by the principle of this game,
wanted to choose Rambo instead of Heracles.
We have refused.
But the european market was not big enough to develop
the game. No market no creation.

I continue to be interested about this polymorphic hero
whose activities cover the daiily life
of the ancient Greece and whose cultural variety
has been occulted by the roman christian religion
who kept in memory the only brutal physical aspects of the hero.
The personalitty of Heracles was interesting for me because
it gave me a support for my reflexions
about our contemporary daily life valorization,
what I called daily life archeography.

I stopped to work on this greeck subject
when I heard that the the french extreme-right politics
was taking the greco-roman mythology
to refound their fondamentalist ideology.

Then I realised an illustration in 30 potteries
of the sumerian mythology
about the creation of men by tired gods...

Gallery

Sculpture / Pottery / Furniture / Graphic design / Funeral art /
Key-words / Computer moving / Remarks about.../
How to command a creation /
Shared creation / Day to day archeography /