Deuxfauves is a French name meaning “two wild beasts,” although I have never pronounced it strictly according to French phonetics. I say it the way it reads in Spanish: “Deux Faubes,” as a single word. Its French pronunciation would be something closer to “Du-fob.”

Something similar happens with foreign brands or words such as Google, Nike or Loewe: we know where they come from, but once we incorporate them into our own language, we naturally adapt their pronunciation. For me, it has always been Deux Faubes.

The name comes directly from my fascination with Fauvism, an artistic movement that has always captivated me, especially because of its free, radical and almost wild use of color.

In 1905, during the Salon d’Automne in Paris, the critic Louis Vauxcelles saw a Renaissance-style sculpture associated with Donatello surrounded by paintings by Matisse, Derain and other artists. Faced with that contrast, he famously used the expression “Donatello parmi les fauves,” meaning “Donatello among the wild beasts.”

What began almost as a criticism eventually gave the Fauvist movement its name.

When I began studying Graphic Design around fifteen years ago, I started an art and design blog called Matisse el Fauvista. My admiration for that movement was already very present there: the way it pushed color to the extreme and the freedom with which the Fauvists broke academic rules. I was especially drawn to those intense contrasts, to colors that could sometimes seem arbitrary or impossible but that, within the works themselves, achieved an absolute coherence.

Years later, when I began using Instagram to show more than just my personal life and started sharing my illustrations, paintings and pixel art projects, such as the Humanz series, I needed a name that could bring together everything I was doing at the time. That was when Deuxfauves was born, directly inspired by my fascination with Fauvism.

The choice of Deux is directly connected to the way it sounds —and that is why I like to preserve this pronunciation—, very close to Deus, the Latin word for “God,” found in the expression deus ex machina. In classical theatre, this device was used to resolve a seemingly unsolvable conflict through the unexpected intervention of a divinity. I liked the idea of Deus Fauves, something like “the god of Fauvism,” but eventually that Deus became the current Deux, giving the name a new meaning: the word “two.”

What is interesting is that Deuxfauves has gradually taken on a new dimension over the years. At first, its meaning was primarily connected to Fauvism and to that radical way of understanding color. But it also connected with one of the philosophical concepts that has always fascinated me: dualism, understood as the existence of two opposing and antagonistic principles acting beyond our conscious control; an idea that is already present in the very word deux.

I have always been drawn to the relationship between one thing and its opposite, that constant tension between two forces that appear contradictory but at the same time need and define one another: light and darkness, creation and destruction, order and chaos. It is curious that, being a Gemini, the idea of two natures coexisting within the same identity has always felt particularly close to me.

Within my current project, that duality becomes much more evident through the literal meaning of the name: two wild beasts, two creatures. It leads almost unconsciously to the image of two kaiju confronting one another within a classic imaginary inspired by tokusatsu, from which Masked Titano is born and with it the eternal struggle between good and evil.

In this way, the name acquires a different dimension while, at the same time, fitting perfectly with everything I had created up to that point.

That is why I feel Deuxfauves is a name that has grown with me. It began as a tribute to Fauvism and the power of color, became my artistic identity and, over time, came to represent those two opposing beasts that sustain the imaginary world of this entire project.

Today, Deuxfauves is no longer simply a reference to an artistic movement. It is the union of color, duality and the universe I am building.