Eye Magazine

A glossy monograph of illustration and design by the fashionable French practitioner. In an interview conducted by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Fétis (who favours the term ‘commercial art’) notes that ‘graphic design – more so than art – has transformed the visual scene of the past twenty years, yet … remains excluded from the History of Art.’

A sequence of artefacts – wooden boxes, videos, the Ladybird book Things we like and a Grandmaster Flash record – forms a visual preface to a rich sequence of recent work for music, editorial, fashion and museum clients. Frequently combining a celebratory trashiness with high-definition gloss, his techniques range from lovingly applied flat colour to wham-bam collage. Fétis declares that his work ‘remains very intuitive … “Function follows form” does not sound too bad’.