Laurent Melon is a visual artist, punk, disc-jockey and radio host.
This former monk, “Brother of the Year 2000” has been disc-jockey since 1984 on Radio Aligre and then Radio Libertaire, and painter-in-residence at Anis Gras, le lieu de l’autre in Arcueil. He discontinuously captures events, confessions and historical places populated by the carnivalesque figures of an upside-down world, which he illustrates in paint.
Since 2015, Laurent Melon has been working closely with Le Générateur, for whom he has made a significant contribution to building the venue’s visual identity. He has held two solo exhibitions there, including Melonrama; his “scoopitones” are projected there in the collective performances Show your [ frasq ], and he also designed the cover for Le Générateur’s 10th anniversary publication.
As part of the Melonrama exhibition, he is building a program of performances, various DJ sets of his own and artistic actions aimed at a multi-generational audience. In 2020, he participates as a musician and painter in Zoom your [ frasq ], an online performance event presented during the first confinement, and on this occasion creates a new “scoopitone”: And God Whistled Flies.