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David aiu Servan-Schreiber

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A self-taught painter, David aiu Servan-Schreiber’s creative path started on the streets of France, within the field of collaborative graffiti. His taste for public self-expression, words with meaning, and calligraphy, was shaped at this point. However, life-changing circumstances later took him in another artistic direction, leading him to abandon the walls of the street for the canvas. In tune with his core beliefs, David Aiu Servan-Schreiber’s artistic route is punctuated by serendipity. Throughout his life, whatever the challenges, he always found a way to dedicate time and space to his practice — once turning a garage into a makeshift studio.

Tormented by life’s greatest challenges — desperation, death, uncertainty — Servan-Schreiber turned to the reliability of science, finding solace in the undeniable: the universe we all live in. This spiritual quest for scientific facts led him to renew his visual language, where aesthetics became an entry point to start conversations around the environment and fragile ecosystems. Taking inspiration from the earth’s greatest struggles, such as deforestation or climate change, Servan-Schreiber’s practice uses nature’s elements: earth, water, air, and fire. If these elements encapsulate nature’s most complex matters and the universe’s cosmology, they also shape his practice. Using wood as the base of his work, the artist uses an air compressor to guide flames and an air gun to spray pigments.

The Planets series, created from 2018 to present, is influenced by various scientists and is organised into “families”: coupling the most intimate with the most methodic, such as the sub-series within Planets, Roani, after the Brazilian Environmentalist Raoni Metuktire, which looks at the devastation of the earth caused by human impact. Appearing partly destroyed compared to the rest of the Planet series, as a result of the artist using fire on the canvas, the Roani plays upon issues such as deforestation, as seen in Aidone, 2020, and Nissoria, 2020. This theme of human destruction upon the earth is explored more broadly in Microcosm, which casts the earth as a barren landscape, sparse and scorched, ultimately related to desertification. Yet the artist’s compositions are not pessimistic; rather they encourage us to consider the damage to earth thus far and work towards caring for the very thing which provides us with life.

Servan-Schreiber’s works are at their core reflective pieces – they tempt the viewer to slow down and enter into a state of contemplation. At the crossroads of figuration and abstraction, in a process of both destruction and creation, life’s intricacies are at the centre of Servan-Schreiber’s thinking and form.

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Selected
artworks

Geon , 2023

Oil and fire on panel 80 x 60 cm
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Spin , 2023

Resin, acrylic, cement and metal leaf on wood 80 x 60 cm
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Montero (triptych) , 2023

Acrylic, fire, cement and metal leaf 40 x 50 cm (each)
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Abelia , 2018

Metal leaf and acrylic on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Abysa , 2022

Acrylic and fire on panel 60 x 80 cm
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Alta , 2019

Acrylic, resin and fire on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Bartera , 2020

Acrylic, cement, fire and metal leaf on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Capana , 2022

LED, acrylic and fire on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Castelsardo , 2020

Acrylic, copper pigment, resin and fire on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Chiara , 2023

Fire and mirror on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Cyclia , 2022

Oil, cement and copper leaf on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Frost , 2022

Acrylic, fire and mirror on wood 180 x 122 cm
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Fume , 2022

Acrylic, metal leaf, cement, resin and fire on wood 140 x 95 cm
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Furtei , 2022

Acrylic, cement, fire and metal leaf on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Huo , 2022

Pigment, cement and metal leaf on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Isola , 2023

Acrylic, fire, cement and metal leaf 140 x 95 cm
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Kali , 2022

Pigment, cement, fire and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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Laconi , 2022

Acrylic, cement, fire and metal leaf on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Limmo , 2021

Acrylic and fire on panel 122 x 60 cm
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Mada , 2022

Acrylic and fire on panel 104 x 122 cm
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Mandas , 2022

Acrylic, fire and metal leaf on panel 80 x 60 cm
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Minsan , 2022

Acrylic, cement, fire and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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Mona , 2021

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Mursia , 2020

Acrylic, metal leaf, pigment and cement on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Namap , 2022

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 122 x 104 cm
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Naveen , 2023

Acrylic, fire and mirror on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Orsola , 2022

Acrylic and fire on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Osano , 2019

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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Page , 2022

Acrylic, fire, cement and metal leaf on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Palino , 2020

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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Piana , 2021

Acrylic and fire on panel 122 x 60 cm
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Portakal , 2022

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Portalia , 2022

Acrylic and fire on panel 122 x 60 cm
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Powel , 2022

Iron paint, cement and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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The Crypt , 2021

LED, acrylic, fire and cement on panel 244 x 122 cm
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The Great Auk , 2018

Oil, acrylic, metal leaf and cement on panel 122 x 150 cm
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The Moho , 2018

Oil, acrylic, metal leaf and cement on panel 122 x 150 cm
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Tikal , 2020

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 100 x 75 cm
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Untitled , 2022

Acrylic and fire 80 x 60 cm
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Untitled , 2022

Acrylic and fire on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Uovo , 2023

Oil and fire on panel 80 x 60 cm
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Vita , 2020

Acrylic, cement and metal leaf on panel 180 x 122 cm
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Yav , 2022

Oil, metal leaf and acrylic on panel 140 x 95 cm
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Muravera , 2019

Oil, resin, cement, gold leaf on panel 180x122 cm
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Milly

122 x 60 cm Oil paint, resin, cement, gold leaf on panel
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Inchauspé , 2021

Acrylic paint, cement, LED on wood 122 x 60 cm
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