Peppone
Installed in the heart of the Provençal Luberon, Christophe Tixier, known as Peppone, reigns over an Ali Baba-like workshop-cave where thousands of collected and saved objects are piled up. A passionate sculptor and collector, he draws his inspiration from a library of nearly 500 comic book albums, the true raw material of his art. These paper treasures, accumulated through garage sales, municipal auctions, and generous donations, form an inexhaustible reservoir of images and emotions. Son of teachers who transmitted to him the value of sharing, Peppone transforms this abundance into colorful and multicolored resin sculptures, imbued with a popular symbolism that celebrates the innocence of childhood and the collective imagination.
His plastic universe summons the icons of our common visual culture: Star Wars, Marvel, Walt Disney. But behind the apparent lightness of these references lies a profound reflection on the human condition. For Peppone, man is the only living being conscious of his own finitude, and it is through reproduction, communication, and dreaming that he tries to escape it. His sculptures thus weave a cyclical link between past, present, and future, transforming ephemeral paper into permanent forms.
Each work carries within it a deeply intimate dimension: by cutting into these pages that nourished his childhood, Peppone keeps alive the emotional bond with his father, the first transmitter of these founding albums. His creations become more than just pop sculptures: they are hymns to transmission, monuments of resin where nostalgia meets the universal, offering collectors a luminous window into our shared imagination.
The works of Peppone
