David Hardy (1967)

David Hardy

David Hardy, working under the name Le Suisse Marocain (Swiss Moroccan), is an artist and gallerist who considers himself cosmopolitan.

Born in Germany, David studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, lives mainly in Paris, but also in Sicily, Madagascar or Japan. In 1996, in the center of Paris, he set up a studio in what eventually became one of the most famous Parisian art centers called the artists' house "59Rivoli". This is where David Hardy lives and exhibits regularly. This huge studio is a hybrid of living and exhibition space and at the same time the artists' collection, the Igor Balut Museum.

David Hardy, through his work, embodies the idea of the artist as a cosmopolitan. Through sketches, copies and collages he makes the world his own. He paints everything around him, even the suitcases in which his work arrives and his clothes. Each of his works of art has its own biography, each object has its own destiny. He calls himself Roi de Rien, "King of Nothing" - a humorous and radical artist-poet who creates for the sake of creating.