My portrait of Charles Darwin in a museum
I'm super excited to share this with you: my artwork is now on display in a museum. I just received a photo of the room of the exhibition with my portrait of Charles Darwin, and it's huge and looks amazing in this setting. This is a piece I painted in 2012 with the software Krita and the portrait is made up of many species from the evolution, kind of like a modern take on Giuseppe Arcimboldo's style, but with a twist dedicated to the famous father of the "On the Origin of Species".
It's part of the "COMPASSION" exhibition at the MAS in Antwerp, which runs since January 31 and to August 31, 2025. The exhibition is all about compassion and helping others (what a chance to be part of that!) and it features a mix of ancient and contemporary art, objects, and music. My art is on the same room than the "Declaration of the Rights of Man", what a honor!
If you're in the area of Antwerp (Flemish Region of Belgium), you should totally check it out. The museum is open from 10:00 to 17:00, and you can even take a guided tour. Tickets are €12 for standard admission and €8 for a discount.
I'm really proud to have my work included in this exhibition, and I hope you'll go see it and let me know what you think or send me a picture, because unfortunately, I'll can't travel to this place until the 31 August.
All in all, it's a dream come true for me to see my art in a museum 🤩, thank you MAS and the exhibition team for that.
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Yahiko
Félicitations !
3 ★pixeltrain3d@mastodon.art
@Yahiko Congrats David!
★david_preston@mastodon.social
Superb piece and well deserved placement.
★ziphi@meow.social
Congratulations! That's awesome!
★davidruffner@raphus.social
Wow! I love all the detail in the animals. Amazing how they form the portrait of Darwin. Congratulations!
★norihiori@mastodon.social
trop bien bravo félicitations c'est super
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
congrats! That’s deserved praise!
★bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
★Oh that's *good*. Kudos.
MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
@lisamelton
What is that exactly sharing space with your art…or is that yours too?
davidrevoy
@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton The white poster and the colorful cubes, no idea. But projected on the wall, it's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen , and that's a honor of being side by side to it.
6 ★Clon@witter.cz
@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton
Color cubes represents some of SDGs, Suteinable Development Goals by UN.
www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
★MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
@Clon @lisamelton
I was thinking closer to the camera
davidrevoy
@Clon Thank you for this info! Very interesting.
@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton
tetora_san@piaille.fr
GG, entièrement mérité vu la qualité du travail.
★lascapi@mastodon.zaclys.com
Énorme !!! Bravo ! :blobcatdj:
★sybren@fosstodon.org
That's amazing, congrats!
★achso@mastodon.online
Oh wow! That's beautiful, what a great idea! I guess many people will stand there forever pointing and counting.
Congratulations 😀
★muhkayoh@mastodon.social
Fantastic! Congratulations!
★chengdulittlea@mastodon.art
wow!!!
★marcaurele@mastodon.social
wouaw wouaw! Vraiment beau 🤩
★dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud
this is amazing and awesome on a day where those adjectives are in short supply 🤩
★grum999@social.maou-maou.fr
congratulations !!
★:blobcatflower: :ablobcatattention:
freezr@friendica.myportal.social
Congrats!
★AxelStieglbauer@social.tchncs.de
Congratulations!
🎉
★clintruin@mastodon.social
★Congratulations!
🌹 💐 🥀 🌷 💐
Amazing placement!
dwardoric@chaos.social
Awesome!
★agateau@mastodon.xyz
Congratulations!
★alien@mastodon.green
congrats!
★heikor@heikosart.eu
😱 Wow! Congrats! 👍👍 ★
valentina_antifa_73@kolektiva.social
Incredible. Love it
★sloanlance@mastodon.social
★Congratulations! Not only for your art being shown in a museum, also for creating such a unique design.
isagalaev@mastodon.social
wow this is impressive! Congrats!
★spinneria@liberdon.com
😉
Jed_Hed@fosstodon.org
Congratulations! Your piece looks incredible!
★Konstrukto@mastodon.social
wow, so great, congratulations!
A very impressive piece as well
★beanface42@peculiar.florist
c’est absolument magnifique! Quel talent!
★FediThing@chinwag.org
That's a really good painting, glad to hear it has received recognition it deserves. well done 👏
★askDNA@urusai.social
It looks amazing! Thanks for bringing this beautiful work into the world. 😍
★phillip@social.lol
@alice That’s SO COOL! Lovely work!!
★cold@gunbark.dev
congrats! do you ever intend to sell prints of it?
★davidrevoy
@cold Thanks! It was on my deviantArt print eshop for 10 years, but deviantArt went so much into enshitification with AI that I disabled it recently.
4 ★I'll try to post it on my Redbubble today. If you want to print it with your locale printer or at home, I posted the full resolution in free access here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2012-11-16_Portrait-of-Charles-Darwin_by-David-Revoy.html (see footer)
TimWeber@c.im
Shades of Arcimboldo! Beautiful!
★raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com
Congrats!
★markwyner@mas.to
wow. That’s monumentally rad. Super stoked for you. That piece is banging, too. 🔥
★darwinwoodka@mastodon.social
I love that one!
★wgahnagl@www.librepunk.club
wow!!!! that's amazing!!!
★MikeH@transfem.social
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Congratulations.
★gportier@piaille.fr
Félicitations !!!
★morph@morphnet.de
Hey, Carrot is missing between the animals! ;)
Big big congratulations! 🚀
★arakin@meow.social
oh wow - congratulations 🙂
★margouyab@mstdn.social
Félicitations. Un hommage des plus mérités.
★Iwillyeah@mastodon.ie
pretty nifty. Fair play!
★oblomov@sociale.network
wonderful piece of art, very Arcimboldish
★krita_artists@mastodon.art
Congratulations!
★sooz@mastodon.art
This is super fantastic!!! And well deserved. I love this piece of art.
★davey_cakes@mastodon.ie
well deserved, that's a great painting
★gecole@universeodon.com
Fabulous!
★ntoyohito@comicscamp.club
Art & Pepper and people's love towards their universe is one thing, but this is something completely different! And imo much more "important" and fulfilling than a gallery (not that I have anything against them). Many many congratz on this achievement! And also being an evolutionary biologist (or paving my path to become one) I feel good for knowing that comic artists and artists in general can contribute to evolution and enjoy it so much :)
★wirepair@mastodon.social
holy crap that is a fantastic painting!
★palme@mastodon.cc
I will be in Antwerp in June. Hugely looking forward to that!
★palme@mastodon.cc
that whole exhibition and in fact that museum in total was a remarkable experience and at that conference I normally would not have cut out the time for this. thank you!
★davidrevoy
@palme Thank you for the feedback!
★copdeb@metalhead.club
so coooool.
★hsolerkalinovski@mastodon.social
you're an inspiration to me
★greatwolf@akkm.moongazer.net
Wow! Congratulations! :ablobcat_aww_kira: ★
thejikz@infosec.exchange
very very very excellent.
★samhainnight@mstdn.social
It's brilliant!
★cliffco58@mstdn.party
A wonderfully creative work. Congratulations!
★frd@mastodon.social
Wow David, this is amazing. Congrats <3
★guayabito@mastodon.cr
your work is absolutely amazing! Congratulations!
★RavenPunk@mastodon.social
Congrats!! That's so huge :DDDD
★Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
Wow. Awesome. Congratulations!
★lps@mograph.social
I love that piece!!! Almost as much as your piece on inequality:) congrats!!
★metin@graphics.social
Cool. Nice wink to Arcimboldo.
★liberloebi@digitalcourage.social
That is most wonderful!
★euneuber@graz.social
congratulations! Well done, master!
★julian@social.piweb.be
Top, l'œuvre a l'air vraiment bien !
★DelphineM
Oh bravo ! Dans un musée, en effet, quelle consécration 😉
★greenCoder@functional.cafe
Je suis fier de toi
★dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
“David Revoy? Pff, he belongs to a museum!” 😛 ★
davidrevoy
@dgouttegattat 🤣 🤣 🤣
ZhiZhu@newsie.social
Congratulations!
★Neotheta@finfur.net
🎉 🎉
★rwsoft@mastodon.social
very cool painting!
★TTimo@mastodon.social
congrats!
★Haste@mastodon.social
Congratulations!
★s3nnet@social.tchncs.de
félicitations!
★s_hulard@mamot.fr
wow congrats for that awesome milestone 🤩
I’m not in Belgium but this Darwin portrait looks awesome !
Riduidel
That's wonderful!
★stph
Félicitations David :) Je me permets de t'inviter au festival @imaginairesdesirables tu trouveras, peut-être, de l'echo avec les travaux de @valem qui cherchent aussi à allier humains, animaux et végétaux.
https://aperi.tube/c/valem/videos
Et si tu ne peux pas venir nous visiter cette année, pourquoi pas venir exposer l'année prochaine et nous parler un peu de culture libre ?
https://www.imaginaires-desirables.org/
2 ★davidrevoy
@stph @imaginairesdesirables @valem Coucou! Merci, alors oui, début Mai ça va être trop compliqué de caser un aller/retour dans cette zone si loin de chez moi à Montauban (82). Mais ping moi en email début 2026 et on regarde comment on orga ça pour l'an prochain. J'ai fait des études à Amiens, habité dans le coin de Laon pendant un temps, et eu des bon copains à Compiègne. C'est un coin que j'aime bien vers Mareuil. ☺️
imaginairesdesirables
@stph @valem
Salut David,
Ce sera avec un grand plaisir !!!
Tu peux déjà noter le week-end du 8 mai 2026 dans ton agenda ;-).
A bientôt,
stph
@imaginairesdesirables @valem Chouette, on t'enverra des photos de cette année pour entretenir ton envie :) RDV en 2026 alors !
★deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr
oh, felicitations !!!
★pablo@pix.berdaguermontes.eu
Magnifique!
Félicitations, David! ★
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