Bio
C’est tout jeune qu’Alexandre Lichtblau débute la peinture au Carrousel du Louvre, mais ce n’est que plus tard, à l’âge de 23 ans qu’il renoue avec ce mode d’expression pour en apprendre les codes et finalement s’y dédier. Reproduisant tout d'abord les œuvres d’artistes de renom pour parfaire sa technique en appréhendant ses outils, il se lance précautionneusement sur le chemin de la pure création en se reposant sur des modèles vivants ou en laissant libre cours à son imagination. Il perfectionnera son travail et sa technique pendant deux ans en apprenant au coté d'un artiste français déjà bien installé dans le monde de l'art. Pour Lichtblau, la figure humaine est aussi complexe que passionnante : « L’homme s’efface devant la masse, usant de son visage comme d’un miroir qui réfléchit ce qui l’entoure. C’est ainsi que chaque visage apparaît comme une coque opaque qu’il devient vital de rendreperceptible ». Si l’humain le fascine, son travail ne s’y limite pas. La peinture constitue pour Lichtblau un fabuleux instrument permettant de façonner le « réel » à sa guise : obscur, insensé, cruel ou fantastique. De découvrir ce qui se cache derrière chacun de nous. Il perçoit le monde, et à sa manière, tel un artisan, travaille la matière pour le réinventer.
Artist's statement
His work has been devoted to developing human figure and representing in colours the connections with the outside world. He began to create figures illustrated with a black and white line. The first paintings were produced with acrylic paint. He started drawing a line in an attempt to suggest an emotion in its simplest expression. Gradually, an approach developed to eventually provide material to this human figure and, also, to simplify the connect by making it either more geometrical or more abstract. Then, oil pastels enabled him to model the colour directly on the canvas. This key element allowed him to gain a better understanding of the division of the body’s volumes or the way to give them consistence through light.
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Finally, he began to work with oil paints to intensify pictorial nature oh his models. Understanding the human body to read it at best, and managing to express and discover emotions even more personal. Nonetheless, representation is not an end in itself. His work aims to combine smoothly figurative scenes illustrating the human being in more abstract environments, that is to say, the vegetable and the mineral worlds.
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It is mostly the search through colour and its shades that inspires him and gives him the energy to produce his paintings. Finding a technique to " contort " the colour and approach harmony by allying styles that may seem incompatible. The link between man and the elements surrounding him is an aspect that intrigues him. What prosition does he hold in his environment ? What connection does he make with the animal, vegetable, or mineral world ?