He wanted to be an art history professor at university, and he finally became an artist, full-time. "I come to the studio every day, without always knowing exactly what I'm going to work on, but it's by doing that things happen. I start a canvas and then I move from one floor to another, I work on several works at once," enthuses Cédric Bouteiller, who after studying visual arts and philosophy at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence is now represented internationally by the Bel Air Fine Art network, notably in Cannes. In his 600 m studio² In Aix, works on plexiglass with rapid and instinctive calligraphic writing emerge. Inks born from his meeting with Zao Wou-Ki, traced with large Chinese brushes and whose backgrounds he then colors with spray paint. For his Street collages – Street tearings, the artist picks up in the street or collects advertising posters that he then sticks one on top of the other, which he graffitis and paints in multiple layers. These are then layers of patterns and colors that he tears off, like skins, and which serve as raw material to create paintings. "What interests me here is what happens in the tears," continues Cédric Bouteiller. Very Nietzschean at heart, and carried by the will and the joy of going beyond through art, Cédric had covered an old Rolls-Royce of César, at the request of his friend, the sculptor's nephew: "I covered it with stickers, then after the exhibition I tore them off and compressed them to make totems. It is in this spirit that I thought of the COTE Innov trophies

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