Thomas Lévy-Lasne
Thomas Lévy-Lasne’s drawings and paintings present the viewer with apparently banal scenes, which look like snapshots of everyday life: dancers jumbling in a party, a lover languishingly lying on a bed after love, a domestic situation or a gathering in the street. These works however result from a painstaking construction process based on photographic montages, which are rendered in a hyperrealistic manner. In doing so, Lévy-Lasne is not so much interested in competing with the realism (facticious in any case) of photography, but rather in exploring with passion the virtually illimited transformations of spaces and textures in an image, as unremarkable as it is.
"Dans Montréal" thus uses the excuse of a nocturnal view of a segment of Queen street, at the corner of the Darling Foundry, in order to challenge the materiality of charcoal, and transform it into elements of indus- trial architecture in brick, glass and metal, the enmeshed branches of some bare trees, as well as the glow of polished ice on the asphalt, heaps of soft snow, the incandescence of street lamps, or the halo of the moon veiled by clouds. The most trivial sight therefore becomes an invitation for the viewer to see something rather than nothing, and to follow, in Lévy-Lasne’s words, "the dreaming activity of matter".
Thomas Lévy-Lasne lives and works in Paris. He holds a diploma from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and his work is represented by galerie Backslash.
Recent exhibitions
| 2017 | Drawing Now, Solo show, stand Backslash, Paris 3e |
| 2016 | La fragilité, Backslash gallery, Paris 3e Paréidolie, Solo show, stand Backslash, Marseille Collective exhibitions: Dendromorphies - Créer avec l’Arbre, commissariat Paul Ardenne, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris 3e Matin, midi et soir, commissariat Laure Flammarion, Galerie rueVisconti, Paris 6e Seuls/Ensemble, Artothèque de Caen, Caen Drawing after digital, commissariat Klaus Speidel, XPO art studio, Paris 3e True Mirror, Espace Commines, Paris 3e SALO IV, commissariat Laurent Quénéhen, 24Beaubourg, Paris 3e Who’s afraid of wild ? Hommage à Gilles Aillaud, commissariat Frédéric Léglise, Galerie Detais, Paris 9e |
| 2015 | Collective exhibitions: Haut les masques!, QG, Centre d’art de la Chaux-de-Fonds, commissariat de Corinna Weiss, Suisse Who’s afraid of picture(s)? 2, Centre d’art À cent mètres du centre du monde, commissariat de Frédéric Léglise, Perpignan L’arbre, le bois, la fôret, CAC Meymac, Commissariat de Jean-Paul Blanchet, Meymac |
| 2014 | hic et nunc, Centre d’art Albert Chanot, Clamart Collective exhibitions: Dessinez Eros!, Galerie Odile Ouizeman, commissariat de Dominique Païni, Paris 3e 18e prix Antoine Marin, Galerie municipale Julio Gonzalez, Arceuil Le musée passager, musée itinérant de la Région Ile de France, commissariat de Frédéric Laffy, Saint-Denis/ Evry/ Mantes-la-Jolie/ Vald’Europe |
| 2013 | Visiblement, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris 3e |
| 2012 | Drawing Now, solo show, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Caroussel du Louvre Les choses muettes, Orangerie du Château de la Louvière, Montluçon |