Youri Leroux

Born in 1972, Youri comes from the North of France, a region that seduces several artists. He attended the Saint-Luc Institute in Tounai (Belgium), where he studied art teaching and met famous artists. He later attended architecture and design classes, and started his first subject : the Nude theme.

After travelling across Northern Africa, Youri began to focus on basic materials, such as sand, which proved to be a very successful and impressive medium, arising the viewer's urge to approach his paintings. In 2000 he travelled to New York, where he concentrated on verticality and asymmetries that were in sharp contrast with his more subtle work on the female body.

Youri accumulates material and paint on the canvas, he brush it and scratch it in order to grasp the original matter. This system of overlapping allows him to reproduce new effects of light and color. His work is centered around four main themes: eroticism, travelling, literature and architecture