Dan Groover

Dan Groover

Dan Groover is a Franco-Israeli Artist and painter who has over time combined, his

personal progress to the most modern techniques in his art work. In the 1980’s

Groover began leaving his imprints around Paris and its suburbs by offering his

original creations to passers-by.

The vivid colours and the bright light of the Caribbean, where he moved as a

teenager, inspired him in his new creations. He completed several major projects

inspired by the Carribbean, such as a wall fresco of six hundred meters around the

Baie-Mahault stadium in Guadeloupe, artwork on building facades, movies and

concerts sets, such as James Brown during his Caribbean tour.

It was then, that gradually Groover realized the transience of his artwork and at

twenty years old, with the encouragement of his family, he began to expand and

translate his work onto canvas, influenced by rhythmic creations including art pop

and street music, as well as comics and imagery of New York city, its icons and lively

boulevards, through its singers Acide-Jazz. He soon became one of the key artists of

the Pop Art scene ranging over the Caribbean, New York and Paris. After visiting in

New York, he wandered between street art, museums, rap concerts in Brooklyn,

bohemian artists over the rooftops of Queens and teaching at the La Guardia Street

Art School. He then returned to the West Indies with new dimensions of artistic

perspectives.

Then, once he had become a fulfilled and established artist, Groover looked for a

new meaning, an innovative edge to his artistic approach and decides to return to

origins. It is in Israel, where he was born that Grover becomes Dan Groover.

When in contact with this land of many roots, he immersed himself in the study of

ancient and esoteric texts from which he draws a visual world full of both Israeli

culture and the sacred symbolism related to Judaism for his creations. Just like

Jacob's ladder, placed as a bridge between Heaven and Earth, Dan Groover applies

a universal dimension to contemporary techniques of his art that is meant to be

accessible to all, employing the graphical language and the visual Pop Art and Street Art.

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