Arnaud Lorieau

Arnaud Lorieau's work develops over time through serial sets. These are a source of new questions and new challenges. His paintings speak of the Landscape and sometimes even more broadly, of the cosmos. They have in common that they are conceived using elements directly from landscapes he has traversed during nearby or distant travels, such as small stones collected with care and categorized or various cracks photographed and archived. Thus, in certain paintings, one or more stones punctuate the colored surface by reserve and introduce movement for our eyes like gravitations (series "In-Out") In others, cracks projected using a video projector in the studio become "matrices" for drawing in color, for composing and questioning the notions of doubling and repetition (series "Mimésis") or even creating semblances of imaginary landscapes (series "Mirages") Arnaud Lorieau's work is neither completely abstract (related to the landscape) nor fully figurative (not a literal representation of an image). Rather, it subtly carves a path between the two.