Born in 1969 Pierre-François GRIMALDI lives and works in Paris. His work is built and begins with a search for material: posters from the 30s to the 50s still present in the Parisian metro stations. It is during the renovation of the stations that the artist, like an archaeologist, goes on the traces of the past and appropriates these posters. He creates compositions of paper that he maroufles on canvas to give them another meaning of reading, in a permanent search for aestheticism. These compositions are at the same time abstract, modern, strong, colourful and singular. In a society where the image is omnipresent and our urban landscape is saturated with it, the artist will search for the forgotten vestiges of the premises of our mass consumption. Modernity prevails over nostalgia.