French · b. 1981
Painting
Johann Rivat is a French painter born in Grenoble, known for his large-format works that utilize imagery from the media and daily life. His compositions often focus on urban guerrilla scenes and social protest, decontextualizing these events to examine the universal position of humankind. Rivat’s technique emphasizes the physical materiality of paint to transform archival and news imagery into historical and symbolic scenes.