Loïc

Lucas

1966 - 0

France

Lucas

What makes Loïc Lucas’s works so fascinating and at the same time unsettling is the way they create a disquieting to-and-fro between the immediately seductive form and the diffuse perception of the content. The temptation to read the works as purely decorative is immediately undermined by the subject: the inner mechanisms of living matter. Nothing here is simply ornamental: these are works of illumination that, as Jean-Louis Lanoux writes, «embroider the living». As illuminations, they proclaim the holy consecration of life; as embroideries, they weave its enchanted, delicate threads.
The artist - a postman, formerly an undertaker - bathes these viscera and organs in a fluid that creates a new geography of the body, while enabling us to bear witness to his own experience of the miracle of life. His works reveal a vital utopia captured in the fullness of its movement and its struggles against death.
A number of Loïc Lucas’s works have already been acquired by major collections of Art Brut and has been shown, in 2010, by the Musée d'Art et Marges of Bruxelles.

  • Arte bruta, terra incognita, catalogue d’exposition, (collection Treger-Saint Silvestre Lisbonne, 20 Avril 2012 au 23 Septembre 2012 à la Fondation Arpad-Szenses – Viera Da Silva), textes de Christian Berst, Marina Bairrao Ruivo, Antonio Saint Silvestre, Paris, lelivredart, 2012.   
  • Rentrée hors-les-normes, découvertes & nouvelles acquisitions 2011 (catalogue d’exposition, galerie christian berst, 10 au 28 sept. 2011), Paris, galerie christian berst, 2011.
  • Loïc Lucas, Brodeur du vivant, catalogue d'exposition (11/06-27/07/2010, galerie christian berst) text  by Jean-louis Lanoux, Paris, galerie christian berst, lelivredart, 2010.
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