The alphabet by Patrick Moya

The Moya Alphabet, is the universe of Moya declined in 26 letters, where we find his «Moya Land» in playful and malicious version.

After the first ABC book, created in 2003 as part of the fight against illiteracy, which toured all the French alliances in Italy and was sold in Korea, a new ABC book was born in 2007.

First presented on the Foster wall of the Carré d'art de Nîmes, it has been the subject of a small book that now accompanies it: each letter corresponds to 26 short texts, as a way of telling the story of an artist who refuses to limit himself.

Here is a third Alphabet, originally designed in 2022 for an exhibition «Alphabet» organized by the Bernard d'Agesci museum of Niort. It is now presented at the exhibition space Arcades, in an unprecedented scenography.

The artist’s entire bestiary is used to declense this new alphabet with a great luxury of details and an immense wealth of inspirations.
It is the same for his little «Moya» (caricatural self-portrait inspired by Pinocchio that represents the artist in all his works), declined here in every possible way - in Acrobat, Cupid, Potter, Indian or Zombie... While his sheep Dolly (also symbol of the famous techno parties Dolly Party) is represented as a dancer, at the window, in the garden or spinning the Quenouille...

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