Virassamy is an up-and-coming french artist/illustrator, from Bordeaux. After the degree in visual arts at the "Ecole des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux" in 2000, he gives birth to the artists collective Shlag while is already taking part to the multidisciplinary group TTcrew. In 2001, he settled in Paris where, with Silverbridge as curator, takes part to various exhibitions like "Mix-Munch" (Galerie des Trois Portes à Paris en 2005).
In 2006, he chooses Brussels to live and work, and there he makes a name for himself as illustrator, often working with European magazines (Vice, Word Magazine, Mood Magazine, Corriere della Sera) and music labels. Always working with the groups of his origin, as the exhibition "Logorrhée Publique" au CAPC (Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2007) testifies, he opens up his artistic horizons, drawing illustrations for art books and pret-a-porter brands. Fortified by his experience of eight years, he settle finally in Berlin.
His instinctive practice, identifiable through the frequent use of ballpoint pens, is characterized by a stylistic ambivalence which correspond to different applications, shifting from simple and free drawing to diligently nervous illustrations.

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