Lionel Prat

As a self-taught artist, he developed his creativity early through technical drawing and letter-painting. His passion for music is often incorporated into the work. During 1990’s, while studying photography and serigraphy techniques, he meets Marcel Couwenberg, the Dutch photographer with whom he works for two years. Later, his enthusiasm for graphic design, which he then uses in photographic works, as well as in drawings and paintings is triggered by meeting Californian illustrator and graffiti artist, Yem.

Always in pursuit of innovative techniques and elements, he begins working with tea in 1999. This seems to bring him back to the primary note, to the origins of sign. Pratt creates urban structures with vegetal consciousness, what we could define as a kind of urban utopia. He says about his work: « the scenery of a society tainted by regressive behaviours. Music seems to be the individual’s moral movement ».