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2020
Yann Lacroix
Painting
280 x 220 cm
From memories (pictures from the Internet, travels, daily environment), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes made of exotic plants, tropical glasshouses, and pools made by their own artificiality. Devoid of any human presence, they still carry the trace of a past or potential history. Through these places both fantasied and tinted with casual poetry like allegories of painting itself, the artist offers a reflection on heterotopia.
According to art critic Henri Guette, “There are no characters in Yann Lacroix’s paintings, but it isn’t an absence. The real subject is the gaze, and the face-to-face that must come from it is with the artworks, whose scale invites confrontation.”
After getting noticed for his realistic, poetic, and sensuous landscapes at the 63rd Salon de Montrouge in Paris in 2018, Yann Lacroix participated in many collective exhibitions in France and abroad.
His practice is exclusively about painting. His landscapes use utopian, dream-like iconography that he borrowed from recollections of his travels and the potential memory of these silent places. Their lushness recalls the most popular destinations, symptoms of a longing for a paradise lost that paradoxically triggers the creation of artificial locations. Like metaphors for the process of memory, the works of Yann Lacroix layer blurred spaces and very precise details whose intensity contrasts with the fogginess of the rest of the canvas.
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Yann LACROIX
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