Discover the contemporary work of Lou H. Second
French artist based in à London then to In Brussels, Lou considers himself to be a pen passed from the inkwell to the inkwell. painting... digital. After publishing several poems in American journals in 2021 and 2022, Lou has decided to to transpose his vision and perspective into digital drawing, continuing to focus on the potential of things, rather than their concrete manifestation in time and space.
Mainly drawing his ideas from the texts he writes, Lou illustrates his metaphors by mixing digital drawing with digital drawing. freehand and design techniques. The objective of each piece is to materialize what he calls “The aura of things”; the fusion of what they are, of what they can be with each other. our eyes and the sensation they cause.
The first published series deal with the ego, the perception of unknown places, the false self or even the metamorphosis of the soul at will ; moods. These themes and the metaphors arising from them are brought to us in the guise of solar systems, unstructured skylines or even animals with unfaithful colors. p>
In his own words (translated from English):
"Look at yourself and keep in mind, you can be loved, you can be shamed, you can be mourned, your memory can be blessed. into the void of oblivion. As long as you are the roaring spark that made two needles waltz, you can sail north and south, you can drift lazily, you can flounder on dog-eared pages "are of the unexpected... shining and burning with all your soul without the slightest effort."
Drawing from his approach to writing, each piece that Lou draws is a sentence, a confidence, explicit or suggested. Colors and shapes are at the service of the enclosed message. in a fixed image, with openly revealed features or in a visual, dynamic metaphor, with an obvious body but fleeting nuances.
Lou first devotes a significant amount of time to his work. think about the concept that will best convey its message: a character, characters, or an abstract composition whose vibrations would betray the presence of a code which only asks to be interpreted. be upgraded day.
This part, as well as its artistic production, is done digitally, using a digital format. hand raised, until so that the sketch becomes the main architecture of the work. Digital technology allows you to spend significant time learning. the development of the concept itself.
This done, Lou prints the composition on aluminum and completes it. acrylic paint or oil. It is in this space between two worlds, digital drawing and painting, that Lou arrives to achieve his goal. unite thought with the materialization of thought into a complete object, by exploiting the strengths of each technique.
