accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1963 in the USA.
His talent in combining a hyper-realistic aesthetic with social messages is what distinguishes the work of photographer David LaChapelle. He started his career creating advertising campaigns and editorials for fashion magazines. Being inspired by everything from art history and street culture to the Hawaiian jungle in which he lives, his images are filled with metaphors and references to both Pop culture and art history. Often provocative, surprising and shocking, his work projects an image both loving and critical. LaChapelle has developed a very recognizable colorful photographic style. Beside his photographic work, he also directs music videos and documentary films.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1976 in Canada. Lives and works in New York.
A self-taught artist, Jeff Ladouceur works primarily with ink, pencil and acrylic to create meticulous cartoons, which takes us beyond the limits of our imagination. His world is poetic and touching, yet his characters struggle with everyday life and surrealistic meetings, with cloud-creatures, tiny elephants, octopi, or an abominable snowman. Combining happiness and melancholy, his work is a surprising, weird encounter between innocence and the darkest irony as in a tragicomedy.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Peter Land, born in 1966 in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen.
Land’s videos, drawings and installations usually show him in obsessively repetitive situations that are often grotesque, caricatured or driven to extremes. Recording acts and, above all, their repetition, is a constant concern in his work. The artist explores the basic conditions of existence and attempts to find sense in acts that appear senseless.
Land proposes himself as an object of study, with his body, his doubts and his fears, to reveal the fragmentation, the dignity and the absurdity of contemporary people, as seen in the everyday images that are transmitted by our cultural codes and by the media. Thus, he becomes an analyst of our times, lucid and melancholic in equal parts.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Sculptor Laurent Martin, best known as Laurent Lo, was born in 1955 in France. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Art Décoratifs’in Paris.
In 2000 he discovered bamboo, a noble and versatile material. After travelling around Asia, in what the artist calls 'the bamboo route', he started to experiment with this material’s possibilities: balance, sensuality, lightness, tension and flexibility.
As the artist puts it himself, he makes mobile 'structures-sculptures' that are in dialogue with space and light.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in the USA. She lives and works in New York.
While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography. Leibovitz is mostly known for her intimate portraits of celebrities for the Rolling Stone magazine, where she worked for 10 years. By the time she left the magazine, she had shot 142 covers. Her photographs also appeared on covers and editorials in Vanity Fair and Vogue.
In addition to her magazine work, Leibovitz has created advertising campaigns and has worked with many arts organizations, like the American Ballet Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Johan Lennarts was born in 1932 in The Netherlands and died in 1991.
The artist has developed a multifaceted oeuvre in which the landscape is a recurring theme. His works include sculptures, glass-paintings, drawings and canvasses. The styles and the paintings techniques have changed along the years. He has constantly been searching for new challenges and has experimented with impressionism, expressionism, surrealism and pop art.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Emilio Leofreddi was born in 1958 in Rome, where he lives and works.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Thomas Lerooy was born in Belgium in 1981. He lives and works in Gent.
In his sculptures and drawings, he plays with images that are inspired by classical sculpture and books illustrations, as well as anatomical drawings and grotesque pictures.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Lin Hairong, born in 1975 in China, lives and works in Beijing.
Lin is a great admirer of ancient Chinese culture and attempts in her work to evoke a sense of contemplative calm. Many features in her paintings are reminiscent of traditional Chinese art, such as the precise and restrained detailing, the soft colors and the two dimensional figures.
There are also echoes of the past in the heavily stylized poses that the artist chooses for her characters, usually positioning them against a unelaborated background that makes the whole scene suggestive of a still from traditional stage drama. Although constantly referencing the past, her works are unmistakably contemporary.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1973 in China. Lives and works in Beijing.
Liu Bolin, also called The Invisible Man, became known for his series Hiding in the City (2005). Bolin is a multidisciplinary artist, using painting, photography, sculpture, and performance. By carefully painting his own body to seemingly fuse with and disappear into a variety of urban spaces, objects, and architectures, the artist explores the ways in which the places we live in shape our identities. After his first series, he extended his ‘camouflage actions’ from China to the rest of the world. Liu Bolin is concerned with the distance between: freedom and control, expression and silence, individual and collective, perceptible and invisible. Like other Chinese artists of his generation, his creations explore the experience of living in a quickly altering urban environment.
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