Oli Birene

“I was born in Paris, France in 1978. I moved for a few years to Switzerland and moved permanently to Cape Town with my wife and two kids in 2015. 

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I am a self-taught artist who started digital art in 1999. I had my first exhibition the following year at the Galerie Matignon in Paris.

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A few years later, I allowed myself to draw and to dive in all sorts of different styles. And after an intense retreat, I started to draw faces. 

Many of those faces are like fixed gaze on the passing of time. I use coffee as much as burnt sugar or any other things I can find.”