Lucas Cresson

2015: Bachelor of Fine Arts at Jean Jaurès University, Toulouse 2016: Master 1 in Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2017: Master 2 in Fine Arts in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Determined to increase the complexity of a medium regularly considered obsolete with regard to contemporary practices, my pictorial practice is exercised in confronting the classic techniques of painting with new digital practices. The pictorial contemporaneity of my artistic work is nourished by a variation of techniques resulting from advertising, romantic painting, and the diversions and creation of images by computer. The works carried out in recent years are meant to be free of meaning, and express in a very personal way a vision of our contemporary culture. This work is nourished upstream from a classic practice, where I was able to develop my own pictorial identity through more intuitive series. This initiation allowed me to question myself on the fine border between the unconscious and the real, and constitutes the basis of my questions on the phenomena of alteration of reality in contemporary imagery. During my research I had the will to approach painting as a living language, which by its multiplicities gives as much to see as the image that I represent thanks to it. I try throughout my work to dissect, distort and twist the image, until I arrive at the most accurate representation and testimony possible. This testimony can only be done through a reading and an understanding of the challenges and techniques of contemporary representation, and allows the painting to find a pictorial vocabulary and a new meaning.