Elzo Durt. Terrorist du bonheur

The artist from Bruxelles showcases more than eighty artworks among silk screening and printings which include his artistic path, featuring more than twenty unpublished artworks.
His works merge two types of imaginary: that punk and post-punk one with surreal and irreverent nuances and the more rational and geometric one from Germanic's modernist and Art Nouveau.
From fluo and pastel colors his desecrating and complex works, let the viewer enter into a fantastic and psychedelic universe, where the sense of reality lose itself between colors and pictures.
Elzo wraps the whole gallery with his innumerable artworks, not giving space at white all, but in kaleidoscope way covered it by color and pictures.
Terrorist Du Bonheur, explores the soul of Elso as a punk musician but also as a graphic designer, his artworks are for the most part pictures stolen from daily life and media which, ones developed and reinstated, become a new and bizarre subject.
Elzo's universe intrigues and charms the viewer by giving him the key to an universe of odd and unreal colors which brings us into an enigmatic and dreamlike world.

ELZO DURT
ElzoDurt was born in Brussels in 1980. Following an adolescence drenched in skateboarding and punk culture, he graduated in 2003 with a degree in graphic design from the Ecole de RechercheGraphique (GraphicResearchSchool) in Brussels – and began to flood Belgium with his psychedelic and punkoïd images.
In 2004 he opened his art gallery – Plin Tub - in Brussels, as well as his own publishing house – two opportunities to exhibit his artworks and those of his favorite artists. At the same time he became responsible for graphic communication at Recyclart, the mecca to the Brussels underground culture. Up until 2006 he was also the artistic director of Voxer magazine.
Over the years he established his reputation for designing posters and album covers for many different bands and labels – Thee Oh Sees, Frustration, La Femme, Le Prince Harry, Magnetix, Jack of Heart, to name a few . He also designed visuals for skate - and snowboards brands such as Carhartt, Rome and Flip, and for clothing brands like Lacoste and Step Art.
Elzo's cheerfully morbid universe can be seen today on magazine covers, festival posters, album covers, and new spapers such as Le Monde. With his works printed on silkscreen, he traveled all over Europe, and even crossed the Atlantic to exhibit his artwork in the United States.
A Jack of all Trades, Elzo, and his Parisian friend Froos, launched their own Music label Teenage Menopause Records in 2011, releasing records from, among others, JC Satan, Scorpion Violente and Le Prince Harry. This again provided him with an opportunity to pursue his greatest loves: designing album covers, organizing concerts and, above all, partying!

A COLLABORATION WITH CARHARTT
Preview Show + artist performance
@ Carhartt Work In Progress - Vicolo del Cedro, 10 - Rome
Thursday 10 December from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm