Yann Lacroix
Diptych, 185 x 310 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
125 x 150 cm
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50 x 50 cm
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50 x 50 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
50 x 50 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
50 x 50 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
50 x 50 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
50 x 50 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
125 x 150 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
150 x 130 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
185 x 155 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
50 x 50 cm
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50 x 50 cm
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50 x 50 cm
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150 x 125 cm
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© Nicolas Brasseur
150 x 180 cm
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146 x 114 cm
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From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.
162 x 130 cm
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From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.
24 x 32 cm
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32 x 24 cm
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27 x 35 cm
Titled, dated, signed at the back
From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.
24 x 32 cm
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152 x 128 cm
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146 x 114 cm
titled, dated, signed at the back
Painted for the exhibition on the gallery's five-year anniversary, the canvas Hespérides leads us into a garden with a lush, and almost kitschy vegetation. It invokes the luxuriance of Babylonian gardens in Yann Lacroix's imaginary. While certain blurred areas give a hazy and unstable aspect to the whole scene, the intensity of the light is concentrated on five apples. The latter are an explicit reference to the golden fruits kept by Laon in the Hesperides? garden. At the limit of artificiality, the artist questions, through this utopian landscape, the status of pictorial representation by invoking mythological references and a common imaginary that gives it a timeless dimension.
100 x 88 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
24 x 33 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
24 x 33 cm
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22 x 27 cm
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27 x 35 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
280 x 200 cm
signed, titled, dated on the back
From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.
35 x 27 cm
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213 x 174 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l?étranger, environnement quotidien?), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d?une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie: une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s?articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d?une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
117 x 87 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
27 x 35 cm
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146 x 114 cm
22 x 27 cm
27 x 22 cm
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270 x 220 cm
From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.
263 x 194 cm
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27 x 22 cm
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146 x 114 cm
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100 x 81 cm
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
72,8 x 63 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
8,6 x 10,6 inch
À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l’étranger, environnement quotidien…), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d’une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s’articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d’une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Signed at the back
Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
230 x 185 cm
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À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien...), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.
240 x 380 cm
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10,6 x 8,6 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
8,6 x 10,6 inch
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9,5 x 12,6 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
63 x 72,8 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
21,6 x 18 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
27 x 35 cm
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9,4x 12,5 inch
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Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
72,8 x 63 inch
Signed on the back
Exhibition:
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019
22 x 27 cm
10,6 x 13,8 inch
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10,6 x 13,7 inch
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37 x 46 cm
174 x 203 cm
Exhibition :
- "Paysage avec figure absente", Domaine M, Cérilly, France, 2017
75 x 40 cm
128 x 153 cm
195 x 240 cm
200 x 135 cm
88 x 100 cm
153 x 128 cm
200 x 240 cm
230 x 200 cm
22 x 27 cm
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Signed on the back
Exhibition :
- "Paysage avec figure absente", Domaine M, Cérilly, France, 2017
Yann Lacroix was born in 1986. He lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Fine Arts School in Clermont-Ferrand, he exclusively practices painting.
Yann Lacroix's landscapes deploy an utopian and fantasized iconography, guided by his memories of trips and the potential memory of these silent places. Their luxuriant appearance is reminiscent of the most popular travel destinations, which have become symptomatic of a desire to reconnect with a lost paradise, causing paradoxically the creation of artificial spaces. In his works, these places are transformed into a mirror of painting punctuated by the play of appearances. The blurred areas contrast with the detailed as a research around the potential evanescent nature of the images. Like metaphors of the process of memory, Yann Lacroix's works thus combine blurred spaces and particularly precise areas, creating strong contrasts.
Therefore, based on his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, stays abroad, everyday environment ...), the artist paints voluntarily composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence, but whose trace of past or possible history brings sensuality and life : a reflection on heterotopias which takes form through these places both fantasized and borrowed from a poetry of everyday life as allegories of the painting itself.
Noticed recently in Paris at the 63rd Montrouge Salon in 2018 for his landscapes just as realistic as poetic and sensual, the young painter has participated in many group shows in France and abroad: in Poland (In translation at the Gallery Pracownia), in Thailand (Sandwiches at the Art Space Cartel), in Belgium (Hotel Europa (chapitre 2): Continents et anecdotes,curated by Mario-Théo Coppola, Le 26 - Felix Frachon gallery, Brussels) as well as in several Parisian galleries and, from October 2019, at the Lambert Collection in Avignon. He has won numerous scholarships and residencies including Shakers in 2013, Chamalot in 2014, La Source in 2015, Fondation Dufraine from 2015 to 2017 and DomaineM in 2017 - as well as in Bangkok, where he spent two months at the Tars Gallery. He was a resident of Casa Velázquez in 2019. The exhibition "This is not unknown to me" is his first solo exhibition in a gallery.