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Yann Lacroix

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Casus Belli, 2021
Casus Belli, 2021
Oil on canvas
Diptych, 185 x 310 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021010


Étendards et tambours, 2022
Étendards et tambours, 2022
Oil on canvas
125 x 150 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022001
Le chevalier à la charrette, 2022
Le chevalier à la charrette, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022003
Run, 2022
Run, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022004
Figure, 2022
Figure, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022005
Le voyageur, 2022
Le voyageur, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022006
Agilulf, 2022
Agilulf, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022007
Castel, 2022
Castel, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022008
Citadelle, 2022
Citadelle, 2022
Oil on canvas
125 x 150 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022009
Qui s'y frotte s'y pique, 2022
Qui s'y frotte s'y pique, 2022
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022010
Écartelé d'or à la croix de sable et de gueule à la bande d'argent, 2021
Écartelé d'or à la croix de sable et de gueule à la bande d'argent, 2021
Oil on canvas
185 x 155 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021011
Les bannières, 2022
Les bannières, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022012
Montmorency, 2022
Montmorency, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022013
Haute-Auvergne, 2022
Haute-Auvergne, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022014
Georges de Lydda, 2022
Georges de Lydda, 2022
Oil on canvas
150 x 125 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022002
Jeux, 2021
Jeux, 2021
Oil on canvas
150 x 180 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021005
Yucca and fruits, 2021
Yucca and fruits, 2021
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021003

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.

Mist, 2021
Mist, 2021
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021002

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.

Murmure, 2021
Murmure, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021008
Architecture, 2021
Architecture, 2021
Oil on canvas
32 x 24 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021007
Agave Americana, 2021
Agave Americana, 2021
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021004

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.

Egypt, 2021
Egypt, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021009
Pommes, 2020
Pommes, 2020
oil on canvas
152 x 128 cm
signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020026
Hespérides, 2020
Hespérides, 2020
oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020030

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.

Sun kissed, 2020
Sun kissed, 2020
OIl on canvas
100 x 88 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020003

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.

Stade!, 2020
Stade!, 2020
Oil on canvas
24 x 33 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020025

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.

BKK, 2020
BKK, 2020
Oil on canvas
24 x 33 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020018
Let's cross, 2020
Let's cross, 2020
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020006
Le baiser (d'après Rodin), 2020
Le baiser (d'après Rodin), 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Signed, titled, darted on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020019

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.

Retour, 2020
Retour, 2020
Oil on canvas
280 x 200 cm
signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020001

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.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020024
Calathea, 2020
Calathea, 2020
Oil on canvas
213 x 174 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020009

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.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
117 x 87 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020021

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.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020014
Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020017
Dirty pool, 2020
Dirty pool, 2020
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020012
Apertura, 2020
Apertura, 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020007
Junk space, 2020
Junk space, 2020
Oil on canvas
270 x 220 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020016

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.

Espace, 2020
Espace, 2020
Oil on canvas
263 x 194 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020002
Holiday !, 2020
Holiday !, 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020005
Cocoa, 2019
Cocoa, 2019
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019024
Sans titre (Room with a stranger view), 2019
Sans titre (Room with a stranger view), 2019
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019016

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Sans titre, 2019
Sans titre, 2019
Oil on canvas
72,8 x 63 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019015

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Sous-bois, 2019
Sous-bois, 2019
Oil on canvas
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019011

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.

Window wall, 2019
Window wall, 2019
oil on canvas
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019014

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Le blues du figuier, 2019
Le blues du figuier, 2019
Oil on canvas
230 x 185 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019005

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.

The summer days have gone, 2019
The summer days have gone, 2019
Oil on canvas - diptych
240 x 380 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019009
Sans titre, 2019
Sans titre, 2019
Oil on canvas
10,6 x 8,6 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019020

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Antilles, 2019
Antilles, 2019
Oil on canvas
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019001
Sans titre, 2019
Sans titre, 2019
Oil on canvas
9,5 x 12,6 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019018

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Sunday Afternoon, 2019
Sunday Afternoon, 2019
Oil on canvas
63 x 72,8 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019012

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Scratch marks, 2019
Scratch marks, 2019
Oil on wood
21,6 x 18 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019010

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Persistance, 2019
Persistance, 2019
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019007
Katanga, 2019
Katanga, 2019
Oil on canvas
9,4x 12,5 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019023

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

India Song, 2018
India Song, 2018
Oil on canvas
72,8 x 63 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2018003

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Cipango, 2018
Cipango, 2018
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Balcony, 2018
Balcony, 2018
Oil on wood
10,6 x 13,8 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2018006



Flamingo, 2018
Flamingo, 2018
Oil on canvas
10,6 x 13,7 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2018001
Blue Lagoon, 2017
Blue Lagoon, 2017
Oil on canvas
37 x 46 cm
Silent Pool, 2017
Silent Pool, 2017
Oil on canvas
174 x 203 cm

Exhibition :

- "Paysage avec figure absente", Domaine M, Cérilly, France, 2017

Entrance, 2017
Entrance, 2017
Oil on canvas
75 x 40 cm
L'allégorie du peintre, 2017
L'allégorie du peintre, 2017
Oil on canvas
128 x 153 cm
The bliss, 2017
The bliss, 2017
Oil on canvas
195 x 240 cm
Conservatory, 2016
Conservatory, 2016
Oil on canvas
200 x 135 cm
Blowing, 2016
Blowing, 2016
Oil on canvas
88 x 100 cm
Crystal house, 2016
Crystal house, 2016
Oil on canvas
153 x 128 cm
Fence, 2016
Fence, 2016
Oil on canvas
200 x 240 cm
Nice place for good value and the swimming pool was clean, 2016
Nice place for good value and the swimming pool was clean, 2016
Oil on canvas
230 x 200 cm
Palissade, 2016
Palissade, 2016
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Beach, 2016
Beach, 2016
Oil on canvas
8,6 x 10,6 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2016001

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.


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