Yann Lacroix
b. 1986, Clermont Ferrand, France / Lives and Works in Paris, France
Working predominantly in painting, Yann Lacroix constantly questions the systems involved in his chosen medium. By refusing to adopt a certain approach, each painting becomes an inquiry into the manifestation of impressions and gestures that compose a painting. The canvas becomes a surface in which discoveries are made. The layering of technique and colour result in superimposed landscapes that obliterate reality. There is a theatrical quality that emerges through the luminosity of colour and the notion of time in suspense.
Yann Lacroix graduated with a degree from ESACM / Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Clermont Métropole in Clermont-Ferrand and Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto in Portugal
He has been recently exhibited at Les Eglises - Centre d'art de la Ville de Chelles, Chelles, France / TARS Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand / Pracownia Portraitu gallery, Lodz, Poland / Cartel Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand / Collection Lambert, Avignon, France / Au Shed, Centre D’art Contemporain De Normandie, France / a Casa de Velázquez. He has participated in international residencies, including Casa de Velasquez, Madrid, Spain / Domaine M, Cérilly, France / Dufraine fondation, Academy of fine arts, Chars. Lacroix’s work forms part of many prestigious collections of art such as Académie française des Beaux-arts, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid / Cabinet des Arts Graphiques, Genève, Switzerland and Musée des beaux-arts de Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and the Bullukian Foundation announced an unprecedented collaboration that is taking shape with the Résidence Bullukian - Fontevraud.
The artist Yann Lacroix, the laureat of this first edition, has benefited since September from a period of residency and research, with the use of a production studio at Fontevraud.
The outcome was the organisation of a solo exhibition at the Fondation Bullukian (January to April 2024), and a solo exhibition at Fontevraud (June to September 2024) curated by Fanny Robin and Emmanuel Morin
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For Yann Lacroix, painting is a sensitive, vibrant and dazzling material. Circulating here and there are touches of pure blue colors which seem to extend a Fra Angelico sky, muted grays seeming to exhume ancestral stones taken from an ancient Armenian monastery, or even more acidic greens which suggest abundant vegetation. The artist's new paintings then open onto deeply spiritual spaces imbued with strong ancestrality. From volutes to volutes, the past and the present intersect to embrace each other in one and the same perspective: to return to the origins of the world or would it not, ultimately, be the desire to tend towards the infinite?
Fanny Robin and Emmanuel Morin,Curators of the exhibition
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