France
• 1965
Biography
Édouard Levé, self-taught, exhibited for the first time in 1992 in his uncle's gallery in Paris. According to Télérama, who devoted an article to him, Édouard Levé, "artist marked by the suffering of double and duplication", places this disorder at the heart of his work. At first very conceptual, he voluntarily ended a career as an abstract painter (“I burned almost all my paintings”), and launched into color photography, composed indoors, with models in street clothes, posing on a plain background, often in postures related to a sport (rugby series) or an activity (pornography series). Writer, Édouard Levé works with a sober writing, freed from pathos, in books delivered without "instructions", where the reader must reconstitute a continuity starting from short sentences in which the influence of Georges Perec is claimed. His last manuscript, Suicide, which evokes in a fictionalized way the suicide of a childhood friend who happened twenty years ago, is deposited with his publisher ten days before he commits suicide, at the age of 42.
Read more
Nationality
Themes
Discover the movements linked to Édouard Levé
Discover our selections of works by artists
Need help finding your favorite? Consult our selection pages made for you.