My portrait of Charles Darwin in a museum

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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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link Le Lapinours 🐰🐻   - Reply
Yahiko

Félicitations !

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link Helge Maus / pixeltrain3d   - Reply
pixeltrain3d@mastodon.art

@Yahiko Congrats David!

link Pavid Dreston   - Reply
david_preston@mastodon.social

Superb piece and well deserved placement.

link Ren   - Reply
ziphi@meow.social

Congratulations! That's awesome!

link David Ruffner   - Reply
davidruffner@raphus.social

Wow! I love all the detail in the animals. Amazing how they form the portrait of Darwin. Congratulations!

link Norihiori   - Reply
norihiori@mastodon.social

trop bien bravo félicitations c'est super

link ArneBab   - Reply
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social

congrats! That’s deserved praise!

link Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦   - Reply
bytebro@mastodonapp.uk


Oh that's *good*. Kudos.

link Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀   - Reply
MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social

@lisamelton

What is that exactly sharing space with your art…or is that yours too?

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
davidrevoy

@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton The white poster and the colorful cubes, no idea. But projected on the wall, it's the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarat , and that's a honor of being side by side to it.

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link Clon   - Reply
Clon@witter.cz

@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton

Color cubes represents some of SDGs, Suteinable Development Goals by UN.

www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/

link Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀   - Reply
MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social

@Clon @lisamelton

I was thinking closer to the camera

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
davidrevoy

@Clon Thank you for this info! Very interesting.

@MishaVanMollusq @lisamelton

link Tetra   - Reply
tetora_san@piaille.fr

GG, entièrement mérité vu la qualité du travail.

link 🌈 Lascapi ⁂   - Reply
lascapi@mastodon.zaclys.com

Énorme !!! Bravo ! :blobcatdj:

link Sybren A. Stüvel   - Reply
sybren@fosstodon.org

That's amazing, congrats!

link Ach so... 🇺🇦   - Reply
achso@mastodon.online

Oh wow! That's beautiful, what a great idea! I guess many people will stand there forever pointing and counting.

Congratulations 😀

link Matt Jordan   - Reply
muhkayoh@mastodon.social

Fantastic! Congratulations!

link Yiming Wu ✅ Use OurPaint   - Reply
chengdulittlea@mastodon.art

wow!!!

link 爪卂尺匚-卂ㄩ尺乇ㄥ乇   - Reply
marcaurele@mastodon.social

wouaw wouaw! Vraiment beau 🤩

link ɹ uɐpƎ˥ƎʞS :antifascism:   - Reply
dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud

this is amazing and awesome on a day where those adjectives are in short supply 🤩

link Grum999 :grum_rsquare:   - Reply
grum999@social.maou-maou.fr

congratulations !!
:blobcatflower: :ablobcatattention:

link 🧊 freezr 🥶   - Reply
freezr@friendica.myportal.social

Congrats!

link Axel Stieglbauer   - Reply
AxelStieglbauer@social.tchncs.de

Congratulations!

🎉

link Kid Mania   - Reply
clintruin@mastodon.social


Congratulations!
🌹 💐 🥀 🌷 💐
Amazing placement!

link dwardoric   - Reply
dwardoric@chaos.social

Awesome!

link Aurélien Gâteau 🇺🇦🇵🇸   - Reply
agateau@mastodon.xyz

Congratulations!

link Alien🍉   - Reply
alien@mastodon.green

congrats!

link Heiko R.   - Reply
heikor@heikosart.eu

😱 Wow! Congrats! 👍👍

link Vale.ariane73   - Reply
valentina_antifa_73@kolektiva.social

Incredible. Love it

link Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤   - Reply
sloanlance@mastodon.social


Congratulations! Not only for your art being shown in a museum, also for creating such a unique design.

link Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:   - Reply
isagalaev@mastodon.social

wow this is impressive! Congrats!

link spinneria   - Reply
spinneria@liberdon.com

😉

link Jed_Hed :endeavourOS: :i3:   - Reply
Jed_Hed@fosstodon.org

Congratulations! Your piece looks incredible!

link Konstrukto Spons   - Reply
Konstrukto@mastodon.social

wow, so great, congratulations!

A very impressive piece as well

link Beanface42   - Reply
beanface42@peculiar.florist

c’est absolument magnifique! Quel talent!

link FediThing 🏳️‍🌈   - Reply
FediThing@chinwag.org

That's a really good painting, glad to hear it has received recognition it deserves. well done 👏

link ask DNA   - Reply
askDNA@urusai.social

It looks amazing! Thanks for bringing this beautiful work into the world. 😍

link Phillip :usa_distress:   - Reply
phillip@social.lol

@alice That’s SO COOL! Lovely work!!

link little tricks   - Reply
cold@gunbark.dev

congrats! do you ever intend to sell prints of it?

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
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.
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: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/mis (see footer)

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link T M von Weber   - Reply
TimWeber@c.im

Shades of Arcimboldo! Beautiful!

link Carl C   - Reply
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com

Congrats!

link Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:   - Reply
markwyner@mas.to

wow. That’s monumentally rad. Super stoked for you. That piece is banging, too. 🔥

link Darwin Woodka   - Reply
darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

I love that one!

link puffball: trianglemancer   - Reply
wgahnagl@www.librepunk.club

wow!!!! that's amazing!!!

link Mike   - Reply
MikeH@transfem.social

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Congratulations.

link gportier   - Reply
gportier@piaille.fr

Félicitations !!!

link morph   - Reply
morph@morphnet.de


Hey, Carrot is missing between the animals! ;)

Big big congratulations! 🚀

link Arakin   - Reply
arakin@meow.social

oh wow - congratulations 🙂

link Margouyab   - Reply
margouyab@mstdn.social

Félicitations. Un hommage des plus mérités.

link Iwillyeah   - Reply
Iwillyeah@mastodon.ie

pretty nifty. Fair play!

link Oblomov   - Reply
oblomov@sociale.network

wonderful piece of art, very Arcimboldish

link Krita Artists   - Reply
krita_artists@mastodon.art

Congratulations!

link sooz   - Reply
sooz@mastodon.art

This is super fantastic!!! And well deserved. I love this piece of art.

link Davey   - Reply
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie

well deserved, that's a great painting

link George 🍦🚲 🥾 ✌️🌎 🌌   - Reply
gecole@universeodon.com

Fabulous!

link N Toyohito / 縁 豊人   - Reply
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 :)

link wirepair   - Reply
wirepair@mastodon.social

holy crap that is a fantastic painting!

link anondiver   - Reply
palme@mastodon.cc

I will be in Antwerp in June. Hugely looking forward to that!

link anondiver   - Reply
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!

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
davidrevoy

@palme Thank you for the feedback!

link César Pallares :damnified:   - Reply
copdeb@metalhead.club

so coooool.

link hsolerkalinovski   - Reply
hsolerkalinovski@mastodon.social

you're an inspiration to me

link Greatwolf 🐺 :sabakannadenade: :verified_blue:   - Reply
greatwolf@akkm.moongazer.net

Wow! Congratulations! :ablobcat_aww_kira:

link thejikz   - Reply
thejikz@infosec.exchange

very very very excellent.

link Samhain Night   - Reply
samhainnight@mstdn.social

It's brilliant!

link Clifford Oliver   - Reply
cliffco58@mstdn.party

A wonderfully creative work. Congratulations!

link frdbr 🎥🌳   - Reply
frd@mastodon.social

Wow David, this is amazing. Congrats <3

link Jorge Bejarano   - Reply
guayabito@mastodon.cr

your work is absolutely amazing! Congratulations!

link Raven   - Reply
RavenPunk@mastodon.social

Congrats!! That's so huge :DDDD

link Beachbum   - Reply
Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org

Wow. Awesome. Congratulations!

link lps   - Reply
lps@mograph.social

I love that piece!!! Almost as much as your piece on inequality:) congrats!!

link Metin Seven 🎨   - Reply
metin@graphics.social

Cool. Nice wink to Arcimboldo.

link liberloebi 📖   - Reply
liberloebi@digitalcourage.social

That is most wonderful!

link Eugen Neuber   - Reply
euneuber@graz.social

congratulations! Well done, master!

link Julian   - Reply
julian@social.piweb.be

Top, l'œuvre a l'air vraiment bien !

link Delphine M.   - Reply
DelphineM

Oh bravo ! Dans un musée, en effet, quelle consécration 😉

link Vincent Cantin   - Reply
greenCoder@functional.cafe

Je suis fier de toi

link Damien Goutte-Gattat   - Reply
dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org

“David Revoy? Pff, he belongs to a museum!” 😛

link David Revoy Author, - Reply
davidrevoy

@dgouttegattat 🤣 🤣 🤣

link Zhi Zhu 🕸️   - Reply
ZhiZhu@newsie.social

Congratulations!

link Neotheta   - Reply
Neotheta@finfur.net

🎉 🎉

link Unix Monkey 🇨🇦   - Reply
rwsoft@mastodon.social

very cool painting!

link TTimo   - Reply
TTimo@mastodon.social

congrats!

link EVHaste   - Reply
Haste@mastodon.social

Congratulations!

link s3nnet.de   - Reply
s3nnet@social.tchncs.de

félicitations!

link Stéphane 🏴‍☠️🐘👨‍💻🇪🇺🐧️   - Reply
s_hulard@mamot.fr

wow congrats for that awesome milestone 🤩
I’m not in Belgium but this Darwin portrait looks awesome !

link Nicolas Delsaux   - Reply
Riduidel

That's wonderful!

link Stéphane Crozat   - Reply
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.

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 ?

imaginaires-desirables.org/

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link David Revoy Author, - Reply
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. ☺️

link Imaginaires Désirables   - Reply
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,

link Stéphane Crozat   - Reply
stph

@imaginairesdesirables @valem Chouette, on t'enverra des photos de cette année pour entretenir ton envie :) RDV en 2026 alors !

link Deuchnord   - Reply
deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr

oh, felicitations !!!

link Pablo   - Reply
pablo@pix.berdaguermontes.eu

Magnifique!
Félicitations, David!


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