EXHIBITIONS 2024 - Digital exhibition on Kunstmatrix platform. 2023 - Virtual exhibition "Terra De_Us" - Kunstmatrix platform 2022 - FLUX exhibition (Group show) London disign district - UK 2022 - Virtual exhibition - "Shapes of the soul" - gallery powered by kunstmatrix 2021 - 3D exhibition "Human Quantum flow" - Gallery Lumi from Ikonospace. 2021 - "Icon" (group show) Boomer gallery - London -UK 2021 - Flux Exhibition (group show) London - UK 2021 - Omega studio - St Leonards on Sea - UK
PUBLICATIONS 2023 - Interview - Artmajeur magazine 2022 - The Flux Review Issue 7 - (6 pages feature) Editor Lisa Gray - UK 2021 - Artist Talk Magazine Issue 17 (Mine publishing) October 2021 - UK
BIO/STORY
BORN IN THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE IN 1964, LAURENT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH DRAWING BEGAN AS A CHILDHOOD REFUGE -- A WAY TO IMAGINE AND INHABIT "OTHER HORIZONS". THIS EARLY IMPULSE TOWARD FREEDOM EVOLVED INTO A NOMADIC, THREE-DECADE CARREER IN THE FILM AND FASHION INDUSTRIES BETWEEN PARIS AND LONDON. FOR OVER 20 YEARS HE OPERATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND STORYTELLING AS A TEXTILE SPECIALIST AND MAKER FOR MAJOR FILM PRODUCTIONS.
IN 2014, THIS LIFELONG IMMERSION IN TEXTURE AND FORM SHIFTED TOWARD THE ARTIST'S CANVAS. NOW BASED BACK IN AVEYRON AFTER YEARS ABROAD, LAURENT HAS TRANSITIONED INTO A FULL-TIME PAINTING PRACTICE. HIS WORK WAS FIRST INTRODUCED THROUGH A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS IN LONDON BETWEEN 2021 AND 2022.
TODAY HE CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUL FROM HIS STUDIO IN FRANCE, BRIDGING THE DISCIPLINE OF HIS PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND WITH A DEEPLY INTUITIVE, SELF-TAUGHT APPROACH TO GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION.
STATEMENT
MY WORK IS AN EXPLORATION OF SOULFUL GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION, FUNCTIONING AS A VISUAL BRIDGE BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND A MEDITATIVE INNER-STATE. I VIEW THE CANVAS NOT AS A STATIC SURFACE, BUT AS A SITE OF TRANSFORMATION -- A PROCESS WHERE THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOGIC AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL FORM CONVERGE TO CREATE "OTHER POSSIBILITIES".
THROUGH THE LENS OF AXONOMETRY, I ORCHESTRATE FORMS, VOLUMES, AND HARD-EDGE LINES TO BUILD STRUCTURES THAT FEEL BOTH ARCHITECTURALLY SOUND AND SPIRITUALLY WEIGHTLESS.
THESE COMPOSITIONS ACT AS PORTALS, THEY DO NOT MERELY REPRESENT SPACE, THEY GENERATE IT. BY REMOVING THE TRADITIONAL VANISHING POINT, I INVITE THE VIEWER TO ENTER THE WORK FROM ANY ANGLE.
MY PROCESS IS ROOTED IN DEDICATION AND DISCIPLINE, YET IT ORIGINATES FROM A PURELY INTUITIVE STATE OF BEING. AS A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST, I RELY ON THIS STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION TO CHANNEL PURE ENERGIES INTO A TANGIBLE FORMAT. THIS PRACTICE IS A FORM OF VISUAL MEDITATION, A COMMITMENT TO BEING ENTIRELY "IN THE MOMENT" THROUGH THE METICULOUS APPLICATION OF COLOR AND EDGE.
ULTIMATELY MY WORK IS A POSITIVE MESSAGE TOWARD HUMANITY. THROUGH THE HARMONY OF BALANCED SURFACES AND THE PRECISION OF GEOMETRY, I SEEK TO OFFER A QUIET, STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT WHERE ONE CAN RECONNECT WITH THE SELF AND CONTEMPLATE THE INFINITE.