After Lab × Mambo
Art as a visual enigma
Self-taught, nomadic, and defying categorization, Mambo, whose real name is Flavien Demarigny, is a Franco-Hungarian artist born in Santiago, Chile, in 1969. After Essentials gave him carte blanche, revealing a body of work that transcends the boundaries of street art, gestural painting, and graphic abstraction. The result is a unique vision: a universal visual language that speaks to everyone without ever needing to explain itself.
Mambo, illustrator of the human brain.
From Paris to Los Angeles, via Provence.
Mambo began his artistic career in Paris in the mid-1980s, amid the burgeoning graffiti and street culture scene. He gradually built his own unique universe, structured around three major series: Brainology, a realm of graphic abstractions composed of spontaneous lines and patterns; Strokes, gestural and optical paintings; and Humans, his minimalist and caricature-like portraits that have become his signature, faces that represent no one in particular, yet encapsulate humanity in all its contradictions.
In 2011, he settled in Los Angeles, where he refined his work in his Echo Park studio before returning to make his home in the south of France, in Apt, at Villa Bam Bam, a former Provençal house that has become both a studio, a living space, and a gathering place.
His work has been exhibited in Paris, London, Geneva, Munich, Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Los Angeles, and São Paulo. He has collaborated with the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, Prada, Agnès B., Vans, Samsung, and Laurent Garnier, among others.
We invite you to discover Mambo’s work:
The poncho as a means of expression
Blue, all-over, no compromise
Mambo doesn’t simply put his signature on a product. He takes over a surface. For this After Lab poncho, he chose an all-over blue pattern, a composition that radiates his energy across every inch of the fabric, just as he would on a wall or a canvas. Bold, direct, with that blend of humor and mastery that defines all his work.
An object to wear, a work of art to contemplate
This poncho looks better draped over shoulders than hanging on a wall. In motion, under the light of the seaside, Mambo’s forms take on a dimension that the studio alone cannot offer. That is exactly where his creation comes alive: on the street, on the beach, in real life.
Discover the poncho
Poncho Artist Series - Mambo
