Jean-Pierre Chebassier is an artist as well as the Founding Director of a communication company. He studied economics as well as Fine Art. He has kept since a furious need to paint and create whilst finding his inspirations in his several lifes: his life as a father of 5 children, as a traveller, as a man living with constant economical competition without boundaries and, at the same time, as an artist creating art works born from his vision of mankind, of the Man in its own individuality as well as in his integration process within a cultural group.

His eclectic side and his vision of globalisation have inspired him for his last work: a formidable fresco of more than 100 portraits of mankind. The aim of this work is to question the belonging to a group, the end of major cultural differences, as a vibrant tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss. His 100 portraits still live on this planet....But for how long? The adherence to one single model inspired by occidental hegemony (since the Romain Empire) becomes the most seducing future.

This fresco is not conceived to be presented in a gallery as such but should rather be considered in a more spectacular way as it is intended to interpellate and strike the general public's sensitiveness.

Regarding his technic, Jean-Pierre Chebassier says: "To fully express sensitivity and sensuality, nothing compares to the strenght and the power of natural materials: natural pigments, oil, soil, sand, leafs, cotton, wood...and all other material linked to the work's subject. These material are of course used according to the meaning and intention of the artwork: the soil picked up in the trenches of the Amazonian forest, that have been dug up by oil companies, will be used to create an artwork accordingly. The portrait of an African will require to use African soil, the portrait of a Bouddhist monk will be created with soil from Angkor... Canson Infinity papers and canvas are more feminine that this link between the canvas and the material... Canson Infinity papers and canvas show a sensual and natural relation that is revealed in the Digital Fine Art reproduction and this feeling in particular is absolutely unique."

Jean-Pierre Chebassier has found with the new Canson Infinity a new way of expressing his creativity and a very good medium to communicate to the public his message.