Discover the contemporary work of Yanis LOPEZ
Né à Chartres in 1996, with two parents who are visual artists, I spent time studying my childhood in Guyana where contact with nature, as well as different cultures, have nourished my imagination both through its freedom and its freedom. than its violence. I have always practiced the plastic arts, since my youngest age, not being able to achieve escape from the world only through creation. Hesitant from the age of 10 to become either a writer or a visual artist. It\'s at At this age I decided to make Art my life. I then discovered automatic drawing which posed a challenge. the foundations of what my work would become. Despite a childhood that I could describe as enriching, even exciting, I could not describe it as happy. Not in the way I experienced it. My emotions being exacerbated and the small joys often giving way to more. depression punctuated by depersonalization. It didn't go well. making arrangements when I left a Guyana in the green heat, to meet a Parisian suburb nearby; the gray coldness. The people were very different, my world too, I changed quite a bit. then in my adolescence, and it's really there. that creation has become « vital ». She was my means of communication. I then followed a literary course at high school with a specialty in literature. visual arts, allowing me to study both the history of art, but also my technique and my plastic thinking. After obtaining my baccalaureate, in 2014, I returned to Paris. the Pivaut school in Nantes in 2015, in the « Common Core Applied Arts », where I was able to work on my techniques and train myself to do this. others. However, no longer finding what I was looking for elsewhere. Pivaut, I decided to to separate myself from art schools, for the moment at least, in order to find myself and be able to explore and shape my practice as much as possible. Through creation I question myself, reflect, I exteriorize. My artistic approach to certainly evolved somewhat over time, but above all it has asserted itself. Indeed the subconscious was my first questioning at first, but I started to explore it. question more and more the Real and the (or should I say the) Reality(s). In truth I want to talk about « inside ». What we do not see and goes beyond our consciousness and human condition. I'm talking about what fascinates me, time, emotions, the force that drives us, God? God is a big one, if not the main question in my work. I see « the artist » like a messenger. The one who transmits a word that he does not really understand, something that is beyond him. I don't like to explain my works since I'm constantly trying to find out more. understand them. It is not my creation which has evolved with my questions, but my questions which have evolved thanks to my questions. my creation. Creation is a means of research. Today automatic drawing is only in the technique but is no longer the main subject of my works. This helps me; express what I cannot put into words. exhibitions: 2013: the Galerie du Sénéchal, in Lucs-sur-Boulogne (85) with « The New Vendeens » 2016: Drawing Salon, Champniers (16) with « Pastel in Charentes » 2018: ARTOULOUSE exhibition, at Toulouse (31) 2019: Personal exhibition at Fleurs du Malt, at Nantes (44)
