Discover the contemporary work of Willy Lespa
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
"Willy LESPA is a transdisciplinary artist, in perpetual research into both conceptual, participatory and technical. He lives in Normandy and works between Paris and Caen.
The art of Willy LESPA is protean. It’s both an axis of research in painting, photography as well as video and sound. The objective is the experimental crossing of several schemas of expressiveness. to explore the interactions and mechanisms of intuitive thinking through improvisation.
Creative director (www.stelaar.fr), performance artist, digital designer (www.weliveart.com), photographer and author, Willy LESPA builds an approach that calls for plurime Media by mixing painting, sound (Steamboatwild), video, graphics and digital engineering. His attention is particularly focused on the place of humans in their natural and virtual environment. It also reflects on the representation of the female figure (#feminamicon) and multicultural interactions.
After studying classical piano and melodic harmony in his hometown of Alençon, he studied Fine Arts at Le Mans then graphic design at Le Mans. Paris. He first experiments mainly with sound, then gradually comes to sound. develop a so-called multimedia creation methodology by multiplying the media of expression.
Teacher of image and digital creation at University Grand Ouest, Alençon site since 2017, he is developing artistic action there as part of a twinning residency with the DRAC Normandie in 2019 followed by an artistic commission from the Normandy Region in 2020 -22 then UNICAEN in 2022 for the Bien Vivre festival."
Elsa-Lilly PWONG (www.stelaar.fr)
Artistic approach
The work of Willy LESPA is a constellation. Each creation is an entity; à part that functions in harmony with others. It’s an invitation to reflection around global and complex thinking whose meaning is to pay homage to complexity of life so that everyone can better understand and appreciate it.
The sources of his work are multiple. First Picasso who, liberated from technique to return to intuitive, almost childish drawing, transmits the complex character of existence. Then Edgard Morin, for his global approach to thought (mixture of disciplines), in particular the fundamental link he establishes between order and chaos and which, according to him, governs art. Finally Wagner, cantor and initiator of the concept of total art, which is materialized in his operas by a force of research which establishes a global relationship between the different fields of creation (music, dance , sets, costumes, literature, etc.) which constitute the work.
The works of Willy LESPA use improvisation techniques as a main process. For the artist, « it is the interactions between media that nourish creativity. ». He also considers it key in his approach « to paint by first being a musician: everything is a question of rhythm, emptiness, fullness, space and time.
The bringing into harmony of the elements induces the setting in motion of a universe in which we perceive a will of harmony. to question the gaze by questioning our relationship to; abstraction and the figure. By going to the meeting of all, without sectarianism, then by creating social bonds, through the use of artistic, scientific and technological mediums, Willy LESPA wishes to invite people to come together. curiosity and at wonder.
In each work, the drawing is apparent, guaranteeing an assumed graphic technique and affirmed by the use of felt-tip pens. paint. Photography also occupies a prominent place in the artist’s work. The mastery of light and complex compositions offers a dreamlike vision. Music, finally, intervenes as an additional layer which gives more substance to the story. the whole. "
