The Artist

Cosmic Aquarium (or Cosmaq) is an interdisciplinary Psychedelic Pop artist who aims to speak to the public’s inner curious child and draw them into his playful yet bizarre universe.

His work demonstrates influences from psychedelic music, old concert posters, and wacky cartoons, but also from his education and previous work as an engineer, showing an appreciation for geometry, symmetry, and precision. Having learned the importance of efficiency as an engineer, Cosmaq embraces simplicity in his approach to art, with bright colors, clean black lines, and easily recognizable shapes to achieve his eye-catching and mind-bending aesthetic.

Having always had a fondness for drawing letters from a young age, and deeply fascinated by the plethora of concert posters designed in the 60s and 70s, it is no surprise that much of his art contains hand-drawn letters with a personality and soul of their own.

Cosmic Aquarium is currently based in France, going back and forth between Paris and the French Riviera.

Philosophy

Psychedelia is a movement that was born in the 1960s as the youth began to challenge societal norms and rules. With a little help from recently discovered and popularized mind-expanding substances, a significant portion of the population started to question their identity, their place in the world, and their knowledge (or lack thereof).

These people soon realized that no one really knows anything, and much of what they were taught to accept by authoritative figures was unlikely to be true. They decided to take matters into their own hands and explore their own consciousness and the world around them, learning to embrace the weird and unusual because it allowed them to experience new things. People’s minds were radically changing, and that change inevitably seeped through music, art, and culture, all of which became more colorful, strange, and reflective of the psychedelic experience.

Cosmic Aquarium was built on the idea of a Psychedelic Renaissance, representing the celebration of experimentation and creativity, and the desire to explore and expand the boundaries of consciousness. We are all lost in a gigantic, strange, chaotic place (a Cosmic Aquarium), why not embrace it?

"We're teaching people how to use their head. The point is, in order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. You have to go out of all of the static, symbolic ways in which you think." -Timothy Leary