Lorann LACAVE LADEUIX
Painter & Draftsman
Sketch of a Painter and Draftsman
The artist Lorann LACAVE LADEUIX combines a mastery of line and charcoal, whose variations extend infinitely in proportions both monumental and finely measured.
He pushes beyond the limits that obstruct the horizon — the barriers of the invisible — painting from the particular to the universal, from the monotype or sketch to the vast gigantomachy of his mural frescoes.
Among his large-scale works are pictorial hangings covering two floors of the Madura building on Rue Saint-Pierre in Caen, and the monumental figure of Aesculapius, god of medicine, which majestically adorns the façade of the Danjoue Pharmacy on Place Malherbe, facing and honoring the house of a renowned Caen poet.
On Rue Arcisse de Caumont, the façade of a lively student bar named La Garsouille—its name inspired by an ancient manuscript discovered in the cellar—displays scenes of primitive life that have survived the elements: cave-like creatures with demonic appearances blazing in a wild procession of barbaric festivity.
Like Father Colombe’s still in Zola’s L’Assommoir, compared to a dragon, the artist evokes here a den that is at once convivial and singular.
The precision of his style, the command of line and surface, lend his work an epic resonance.
Lorann LACAVE LADEUIX is an artist time will remember — one who captures and recreates life itself, from the humblest medium to the grandest mythological fresco.
“This encounter with the artist cannot exhaust the scope of a talent and creativity that stretch from one shore to another of our distant dreams, across the multiple landscapes of rediscovered life.”
— Michel Vital-Le Bossé, Writer, Professor at the Sorbonne, Officer of Arts and Letters, Doctor of Human Sciences, Member of the Society of French Poets and the Society of Ethnography of Paris, Art Critic.
