About Renk

Born as Walig Nicolet in Rennes, France (b. 1987), he began tagging in the year 2000 with the blaze 100REMOR after seeing a TV report about graffiti. A few years later, he met several taggers and graffiti enthusiasts during his training in communication in Bagnolet. He then changed his name to Renkar, before choosing Renk in 2007, which became his artist name. Starting 2011, following a revelation during a trip to the Sinai desert in Egypt, Renk has fully dedicated himself to paintings on canvas. “One evening, while watching the sunset, Walig had an epiphanic moment. The sky and the colours seemed to speak to him. The message was clear and concise: ‘painting will be your whole life’. (David Rosenberg, Renk, Éditions Skira, 2021)

Renk lives and works in Paris, France.

Makoto Ofune creates work imbued with silence, slowness, and contemplation. Using powdered mineral pigments applied to Japanese hemp paper, stone, or crystals, he crafts delicate surfaces where the act of repetition becomes a form of meditation. Through this practice, he explores the subtle connections between the ephemeral and the eternal, the visible and the invisible, matter and breath.

His works, both fragile and powerful, embody a search for resonance with the deep rhythms of nature. They convey a fundamental sensory experience, in which intimate perception meets a cosmic vision of the world. His palette, full of nuance and restraint, evokes a kind of visual asceticism in harmony with Zen aesthetics and philosophy.