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weepingwidar · 1 year

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Laurent Proux (French, 1980) - Abendland (2023)

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le-peixe · 6 months

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Hey! :) What's the inspiration behind your paintings?

Oh, that's a huge question.

I mostly paint self-portraits and my inspiration comes a lot from life. I'm learning oil painting by myself for four years now and this experience became so important that it slighty became my main subject, even if it's not an evidence ahah My paintings can be questions, wishes for the future or just a way to memorise a particular state of mind; this start point is often expressed in the title of each image.

I try to paint with what I have around me, the backround are inspired by the place where I live. I also work in a workshop with two ceramists and it's probably one of the explanaitions of why there are son many pots and jars in my work, I can paint them directly from life and change their shapes and sizes.

For the historical part I can't deny that the christian imagery had a lot of influence on my symbolic. Even if I'm not a religious person it's a part of my education. I noticed I unconsciously take the place of the Christ in my compositions and now like to play with it.

For the paintors, if I had to chose three names, I look at Rembrandt, Mancini, Hammershøi for the deads and Lisa Ivory, Laurent Proux, Jean-Baptiste Boyer for the contemporary ones.

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winurban · 2 years

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supersonicart · 2 years

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“Lost In A Spectacle.”

Currently on view at WOAW Gallery in Beijing until June 24th, 2022 is “Lost in a Spectacle” curated by Saša Bogojev.

Pointing at different tones of the connection between human nature and nature at large, the exhibition was conceived by the writer and curator Saša Bogojev and is comprising paintings and sculptures by Laurent Proux, ZacharyOchoa, Gabriel Cortese, Horacio Quiroz, Charles Shedden aka OWVBICS, Jade Thacker, Emilie Stark-Menneg, Josh Jefferson, and Kiko Miyares.

“The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Starting with the term that's been standing for nature's grandeur and brilliance for centuries, “Lost in a Spectacle” is also suggesting humanity's growing struggle to find a harmonious place within its natural habitat. The many stages of this regression are portrayed with various approaches through which artists are touching the subject of complex interconnectivity with our inherent surroundings. These include cheerfully enjoying the lush surroundings (Cortese) or even blending with its elements (Quiroz),feeling baffled and displaced in the wilderness (Proux), repurposing its elements as superficial decoration (Shedden, Stark-Menneg), turning irrationally destructive towards it(Ochoa, Miyares), and eventually dissolving into its essence, the abstract organic forms(Thacker, Jefferson). Experimenting with the techniques and embracing the abundance of visual influences around us, these works are to some extent channeling everything from romanticism's idealization of nature to impressionism's urge to depict the changing qualities of life, all while keeping the awareness focused on the environmental and human condition concerns.

Conveyed through different styles of painting, technical approaches, and even mediums, the entire presentation is imbued with an atmosphere of pulsating vivacity and relentless growth. Growth, which at times is put to test by our mindless, self-centered actions, only to instantaneously remind us that we're nothing but speckles in its greatness. Struggling to make the best out of a blink of an eternity which we recognize as a lifetime, in a figurative and literal way we are more and more evidently lost in a spectacle of nature.