Philippe Sokazo (b 1962)

Philippe Sokazo was born in Toulouse, France. He graduated from lEcole des Beaux Arts de Paris in 1989.

He developed his Iconic Abstraction style using the hard hedge technique to show virtual landscapes and beings, heroes of imaginary worlds.

He was working, living and traveling in Paris New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Bombay, Prague, London.

His work for the community became and in 2000 He was Appointed member of honor by the City of Toulouse, and bought by French contemporaries museum

His quest of stronger subjects and inspiration moved him to Vancouver, British Columbia where he is living since 2005.

His art is also apply for designing luxury objects such as Humidor, ciment Tiles, sculpted rugs, few great French wines, jewelry and cars.
After founded an association in France with 6 other artists to collect milk for babies of poor family

He was the first artist in North America to design a Smart car for Mercedes Benz.
According to him for CBC TV: For make living Art, Artists need to be present also in the everydays people and not only in museum stimulatin power of imagination to built a better world
The canvas Pacific Spirits in Motion is a recent illustration of this concept declined for Smart car but also in clothes, or figurines for children in hospital.

Artist Statement

Since the past few years, I worked in Europe to create and showcase an original and personal aesthetic universe.

My juxtaposed multicoloured shapes are privileged vehicles in this quest, especially when industrials use them to embellish everyday objects: a way for me to penetrate and hopefully positively alter the lives of a greater number

My paintings are all hand-made using acrylic and a technique called Hard-Edge. In their unique language, they narrate stories, encounters between probable beings from unconscious universes, sensations like love, melancholy, appetite, or display landscapes that can be alternatively aquatic, aerial or virtual.

Humour and poetry play an important role in the composition, enhanced by the savoir-faire of colours.

Immerged in Sokazos world, the spectator lets his imagination roam through fantastic circumstances. Hell discover a part of himself by accepting the concept of the two infinites, visible and invisible, and may even find himself content with his condition in a universe bound by endless questioning.

The West Coast is a new source of inspiration for me. Magnificent icons spur from its foundations, half-divinities, half-spirits, like memoirs of the Rain Forest and its thousand mysteries.

This is the work I want to share with the public, the opportunity for them to realize the incredible richness and potential for dreams and inspiration that this unique place shelters.

The public will be invited to discover a world populated by Pacific creatures and landscapes. Theyll be able to witness contemporary picturesque poems, rich with the dreams and hopes that characterize the West Coast.