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  • loïc lucas

    embroider the living

    11 June > 17 July 2010

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(LUC060) Sans titre, 2009, Acrylique sur papier, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC046) untitled, Commencé en 2003, terminé en 2008, acrylic on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC059) untitled, 2009, acrylic on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC055) untitled, 2008, acrylic on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC071) untitled, 2009, acrylic painting on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC048) Untitled, 2008, Acrylic on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC042) untitled, Commencé en 2003, terminé en 2008, acrylic on paper, 18.98 x 14.37 inches
(LUC062) untitled, 2009, acrylic on paper, 30.12 x 22.52 inches

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 outsider art.

  • Loïc Lucas, brodeur du vivant authors in animula vagula, June 7th 2010.  
  • Info-Miettes, Exposition Loïc Lucas à la Galerie Christian Berst authors in Le Poignard Subtil, June 6th 2010.  

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