The self-described “landscape painter” explores the city from its margins. As he moves through urban space, Olivier Kosta Théfaine seeks out the elements that escape us. In his desire to rehabilitate the uninteresting or the connotated, the artist places in the realm of poetry the often inextricable power re- lationship we have with the city. His interest in detail guides his travels and feeds a bank of images. Considering himself a pure product of the city, he plays with clichés and transforms common references. The classic is hijacked through the tech- niques of “cheap vandalism”, as when he composes a charred sky on the three cupolas of the Palais de Tokyo with a lighter, inspired by the frescoes of Italian palaces, the graffiti on the ceilings of his teenage years take on the air of Renaissance paintings.