(Top left) As you look into Eye of the cyclops - so the Eye of the cyclops looks into you, 2003; (Top right) The victory of Hell, 1995. (Bottom left) Portrait of Charles Manson, 1988; (Bottom right) Theman of sorrows, 1993.

Tokyo Palace's unconventional solo exhibition "Joc Colcman" is on display at the Palais de Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum in Paris from February 1 to March 11. It is one of the solo exhibitions within the major theme "News from the upside-down," following the previous major theme "Five Billion Years." Joc Colcman is one of New York's most unique artists of the new generation, as well as a musician, performance artist, and actor, and an outstanding painter. A painter who possesses a wide range of skills, his broad vision and extraordinary physical and visual language are remarkable, especially his unconstrained imagination, which is unparalleled and even arrogant and diverse.

Joc Colcman's painting life continues to narrate heaven and hell, war and peace, psychology and physiology, full of literary and anecdotal qualities, running wild between reality and imagination. In his Baroque-rich paintings and Gothic unconventional worlds, he favors contemporary portrait painting. Amidst densely divided images and narrative texts, it resembles humorous wall graffiti and comic forms. His large and small images construct imaginative allegories and narratives through realistic or imagined dreamlike scenes, wandering in the whimsical world of Northern Renaissance master painters Jerome Bosch and Bruegel, moving between ambiguous images of historical figures in popular culture, religion, festivals, war, heaven, and hell.