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Luc Andrié

09.26.08 - 10.19.08
Exhibition — Gallery le Confort des Étranges

Works by Luc Andrié are on view at the Exprmntl galery and in the exhibition organized by Denis Savary at the Espace Croix-Baragnon. 

Born in 1954 in Pretoria, South Africa, he lives in Lausanne.

 

“Luc Andrié's painting is not very polished. His pictures seem quickly painted and quite keen to come across as irritating. They often have something empty about them, something absurd and unattractive. It's in the crafty complexities of inconvenience that is bestirred that are revealed its unusual lucidity, its cruel sense of reality, its very wholesome undertaking to disappoint. Nothing spectacular here.” (Christian Bernard)

 

What does the dictum “Wherever I am going, I am already there” do for you?

The transitory state of a building site started and finished in one and the same economic gesture and, from then on, not in the least destined to be occupied or filled in any way whatsoever. ” (Emmanuel Latreille, in Andrié, l'Africain).

 

A word about your project or artistic proposal?

I'm carrying on with my project: excitedly spinning around the pot. The show will be called Il pourrait dire merci/He might say thank you and will be made up of about a dozen canvases. Important: the title is in lower case. The last thing involved here is self-portraits. Needless to say, it is my body and my figure that are depicted, my image to put it in a nutshell, but it is the artist's that is presented, a sequence of performances that take place in my studio.


What does art enable you to do?

A problematic plastic feeling, impossible to define with any certainty.