“Extincteur dansant"

Revisitation of the "Dancing Faun," an artist's intuition to link the faun to the Vesuvius eruption that devastated the city in 79 AD. Is it a paradox or a wish? The faun celebrates his victory over the volcano's eruptive power by taking a selfie with the fire extinguisher. 

Born in Tunisia in 1985, Akram Toujani graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis and works between Tunisia and Turkey. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture, performance, installation and storyboarding, among other disciplines. He focuses on time and temporality and is noted for his speed and use of the stopwatch as a plastic element, which inspired the Quick Pen concept. Through drawing and calligraphy on a variety of subjects, particularly 'revisited heritage', he produces a resolutely neat and illustrative aesthetic. Each artwork highlights the opportunity for interaction and storytelling that exists in public space, as well as black and white characters and revisited writing. The public can see provocative frescoes in carefully chosen settings. Everything, in his perspective, revolves around the image he has in his head and the drive he has to make his ideas a reality. He only wants to complete his task.