Splich Sploch stands as the artistic brainchild of Sergio Honorez. It evokes the artistic effervescence of brushstrokes thrown onto a canvas with a kind of French Touch.
A Cannes Silver Lion laureate, he directs television and radio features while also serving as the editorial director of graphic novel publisher Editions Dupuis. Sergio skillfully melds comedy, graphics, animation, and storytelling, fashioning films, advertisements, and images that transcend conventional boundaries, inviting audiences into a realm "beyond the looking glass."
His linguistic and grammatical finesse bear the imprint of various influences, including the likes of Jean-Christope Averty, Georges Méliès, Saul Bass, Ward Kimball, Edward Muybridge, David Hockney, Salvador Dali, Terry Gilliam, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray and an array of other creative minds.
He composes his art through video paintings, windows open to a world where characters navigate with astonishing ease between fiction and reality. Their movements, as fluid as a feather-light ballet dancer or an athlete displaying exquisite agility, create a visual choreography. Silhouettes cross and intertwine, graceful, sometimes outright grotesque.
Drawing on his directing skills, equally adept with actors as with animation, including pixillation – a stop-motion technique using actors – Sergio Honorez immerses movement in a sea of subtle computer-generated images. Far from dictating a precise meaning, he offers a playful exploration between reality and imagination, inviting the viewer to be carried away by raw emotion, to find a personal meaning.
His immersive paintings, whether in motion or frozen in time, act as an "unconscious revealer" and present themselves for visual enjoyment like a visual treat.
Born in Brussels in 1963, Sergio Honorez currently resides in Amsterdam.
