Laurent Le Deunff - Chouette des neiges, Crocodile, Escargot, 2024 - Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Laurent Le Deunff, Chouette des neiges, Crocodile, Escargot, 2024. Installation with Concrete Sculptures, Earth, Tree Bark, Dead Leaves, Moss and Various Species of green Plants and Saplings. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist and Semiose, Paris. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Laurent Le Deunff à na gran preferënza per la tecniches d’ert y d’artejanat tradiziuneles che l tol ca suvënz per ngiané la perzezion de chëi che cëla pro gaujan na contradizion danter materiai adurvei y i ogec mustrei. L fej suvënz nstalazions aldò dl post ulache l mët ora y ulache l sënta ite si scultures y dessënies, sciche te My Prehistoric Past (2022), ulache là nrescì diorams, “trompe-l’oeils“ y cabinëc dla curiositeies tipichs di museums metan scultures, dessënies y bas-reliefs te cuntredes immersives. Te n juech de formes, materiai y proporzions mët Laurent Le Deunff al mont imajes y stories y mët n cuestion la nuzion de replica y “fake“ danter la produzion artejanela y industriela y l valor dl profan y l sacral.

A unì ite ti ufizies de Biennale Gherdëina tl raion artejanel de Pontives à Le Deunff fat do na szena de n bosch de marueia tulan ca tiera, scorzes di lëns, pleces sëces, mustl y d’uni sort de plantes vërdes y piciuei. I vijitadëures che va su aut tla sales de mostra, se muev sun pitli troies, danter l fonz de tiera y na secuënza de trëi cëves de tieres che l artist à metù ju sun na fundamënta sciche na fòssa, y plu avisa na ciafita dla nëif, n cocodril y n snech. Chisc ie unii fac tl stil decuratif rocailles, coche l fova usanza fé tla Franzia dl 19ejim secul y ulache n ziplova tl peton a na maniera che l cëla ora sciche sce l fossa lën. Te chësc cialé ora nia reél nes porta l’adurvanza de chësc stil te n mond danter curtina di tieres, ert grotesca y decurazion kitsch di verzons. L fé su chësc pitl parch tl dedite de n frabicat modern te n raion artejanel de Gherdëina, te chëla valeda cunesciuda per si natura de marueia y nce per la tradizion dl ziplé de seculi, nes lecorda che la cosses ne ie nia for coche les semea. (S.G.) 

LAURENT LE DEUNFF

Laurent Le Deunff (1977, Talence, France) lives and works in Bordeaux. In his works a bestiary of dolphins, slugs, moles, seahorses and bears brings together a wide variety of creatures without any hint of hierarchy of species. He has presented his works at La Halle des Bouchers, Vienne; Carré Scène nationale, Château-Gontier, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris and FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; FRAC Normandie Caen; MOCO, Montpellier; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême; FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; and MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan. His work is part of the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan; CAPC, Bordeaux; FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle Aquitaine, Limoges; and FRAC Normandie Caen.

Laurent Le Deunff - Chouette des neiges, Crocodile, Escargot, 2024 - Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Laurent Le Deunff, Chouette des neiges, Crocodile, Escargot, 2024. Installation with Concrete Sculptures, Earth, Tree Bark, Dead Leaves, Moss and Various Species of green Plants and Saplings. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist and Semiose, Paris. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Laurent Le Deunff à na gran preferënza per la tecniches d’ert y d’artejanat tradiziuneles che l tol ca suvënz per ngiané la perzezion de chëi che cëla pro gaujan na contradizion danter materiai adurvei y i ogec mustrei. L fej suvënz nstalazions aldò dl post ulache l mët ora y ulache l sënta ite si scultures y dessënies, sciche te My Prehistoric Past (2022), ulache là nrescì diorams, “trompe-l’oeils“ y cabinëc dla curiositeies tipichs di museums metan scultures, dessënies y bas-reliefs te cuntredes immersives. Te n juech de formes, materiai y proporzions mët Laurent Le Deunff al mont imajes y stories y mët n cuestion la nuzion de replica y “fake“ danter la produzion artejanela y industriela y l valor dl profan y l sacral.

A unì ite ti ufizies de Biennale Gherdëina tl raion artejanel de Pontives à Le Deunff fat do na szena de n bosch de marueia tulan ca tiera, scorzes di lëns, pleces sëces, mustl y d’uni sort de plantes vërdes y piciuei. I vijitadëures che va su aut tla sales de mostra, se muev sun pitli troies, danter l fonz de tiera y na secuënza de trëi cëves de tieres che l artist à metù ju sun na fundamënta sciche na fòssa, y plu avisa na ciafita dla nëif, n cocodril y n snech. Chisc ie unii fac tl stil decuratif rocailles, coche l fova usanza fé tla Franzia dl 19ejim secul y ulache n ziplova tl peton a na maniera che l cëla ora sciche sce l fossa lën. Te chësc cialé ora nia reél nes porta l’adurvanza de chësc stil te n mond danter curtina di tieres, ert grotesca y decurazion kitsch di verzons. L fé su chësc pitl parch tl dedite de n frabicat modern te n raion artejanel de Gherdëina, te chëla valeda cunesciuda per si natura de marueia y nce per la tradizion dl ziplé de seculi, nes lecorda che la cosses ne ie nia for coche les semea. (S.G.) 

LAURENT LE DEUNFF

Laurent Le Deunff (1977, Talence, France) lives and works in Bordeaux. In his works a bestiary of dolphins, slugs, moles, seahorses and bears brings together a wide variety of creatures without any hint of hierarchy of species. He has presented his works at La Halle des Bouchers, Vienne; Carré Scène nationale, Château-Gontier, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris and FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; FRAC Normandie Caen; MOCO, Montpellier; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême; FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; and MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan. His work is part of the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan; CAPC, Bordeaux; FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux; FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle Aquitaine, Limoges; and FRAC Normandie Caen.