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Luc Médrinal was born in Le Havre in 1966. He discovered photography at the age of 12 and was quickly fascinated by the magic of the laboratory, where he spent hours discovering the subtleties of printing. His years of apprenticeship are gained through encounters alongside studies in horticulture and landscaping.

Drawing an essential resource from nature, he undertakes work that attempts to make the energy of places defined by hostile specificities acceptable. Scorched lands, industrial landscapes, felled forests, nature in what Man makes of it. He uses film as a working medium, but also benefits from innovations in digital technology.

His pronounced taste for experimentation continually pushes his technical and sensitive field of investigation further. Training regularly completes and opens up his research, such as that carried out with the Danish engraver and photographer Henrik Boegh, on photopolymer photoengraving techniques, or that carried out with the Spanish bookbinder Luis Barrios, on the artist's book.

His photographic work is based on the intimate relationship he has with nature, and on the way in which he positions himself not in front of the landscape but in it. It is about the landscape perceived and felt with the whole body, it becomes an extension of what it is, and what it is transforms into an extension of what it looks at.

The landscape can be imposing, hostile, supportive or reassuring. It all depends on how you approach it. It then takes the form of a fleeting and evanescent vision, fragments, plots, furtive images, which reveal themselves in sensitive spaces.

Far from any form of exoticism, Luc Médrinal photographs what is close to him. In this intuitive approach, he seeks the trace, the index of presence, the spirit of the place, to make them readable and acceptable. The photographer tries to give it a personal and intimate vision. It is not a question of representing but rather of evoking, questioning and exploring. The eye does not stop on anything but absorbs the essential, it is a collaboration with the unconscious, the obsession to look in order to see beyond appearances.

The techniques that the photographer uses allow him a new translation of the decor, by attaching importance to the rendering and the poetic unity of each image. He remains attached to the use of the negative, to its specificity and to the experimental interventions that he can exercise in shooting and in the laboratory. These traditional photographic processes, mainly in black and white, combined with new non-toxic engraving processes offer him a wide range of possible translations and a vast field of experimental research.

Accident is often welcome and each picture teaches him the next.


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All artworks of Luc Médrinal
Photography, Terres brûlées I, Luc Médrinal

Terres brûlées I

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 33 x 35 x 0.5 cm

$678

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Photography, Vu d'ici 8, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 8

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal

Série 'Terres brûlées II'

Luc Médrinal

Print - 33 x 35 x 0.2 cm

$226

Photography, Vu d'ici 18, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 18

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 17, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 17

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 16, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 16

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 12, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 12

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 15, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 15

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 14, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 14

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 13, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 13

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 11, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 11

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 19.5 x 53 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 10, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 10

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 9, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 9

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 7, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 7

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 6, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 6

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, 1 km² (livre d'artiste), Luc Médrinal

1 km² (livre d'artiste)

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 18 x 18 x 2.5 cm

$373

Photography, Elur eta Sua (livre d'artiste), Luc Médrinal

Elur eta Sua (livre d'artiste)

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 18 x 18 x 0.5 cm

$226

Photography, Vu d'ici 5, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 5

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 4, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 4

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 3, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 3

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 2, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 2

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

Photography, Vu d'ici 1, Luc Médrinal

Vu d'ici 1

Luc Médrinal

Photography - 21 x 59 x 0.3 cm

$271

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Who is the artist?

Luc Médrinal was born in Le Havre in 1966. He discovered photography at the age of 12 and was quickly fascinated by the magic of the laboratory, where he spent hours discovering the subtleties of printing. His years of apprenticeship are gained through encounters alongside studies in horticulture and landscaping.

Drawing an essential resource from nature, he undertakes work that attempts to make the energy of places defined by hostile specificities acceptable. Scorched lands, industrial landscapes, felled forests, nature in what Man makes of it. He uses film as a working medium, but also benefits from innovations in digital technology.

His pronounced taste for experimentation continually pushes his technical and sensitive field of investigation further. Training regularly completes and opens up his research, such as that carried out with the Danish engraver and photographer Henrik Boegh, on photopolymer photoengraving techniques, or that carried out with the Spanish bookbinder Luis Barrios, on the artist's book.

His photographic work is based on the intimate relationship he has with nature, and on the way in which he positions himself not in front of the landscape but in it. It is about the landscape perceived and felt with the whole body, it becomes an extension of what it is, and what it is transforms into an extension of what it looks at.

The landscape can be imposing, hostile, supportive or reassuring. It all depends on how you approach it. It then takes the form of a fleeting and evanescent vision, fragments, plots, furtive images, which reveal themselves in sensitive spaces.

Far from any form of exoticism, Luc Médrinal photographs what is close to him. In this intuitive approach, he seeks the trace, the index of presence, the spirit of the place, to make them readable and acceptable. The photographer tries to give it a personal and intimate vision. It is not a question of representing but rather of evoking, questioning and exploring. The eye does not stop on anything but absorbs the essential, it is a collaboration with the unconscious, the obsession to look in order to see beyond appearances.

The techniques that the photographer uses allow him a new translation of the decor, by attaching importance to the rendering and the poetic unity of each image. He remains attached to the use of the negative, to its specificity and to the experimental interventions that he can exercise in shooting and in the laboratory. These traditional photographic processes, mainly in black and white, combined with new non-toxic engraving processes offer him a wide range of possible translations and a vast field of experimental research.

Accident is often welcome and each picture teaches him the next.

When was Luc Médrinal born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1966