Avoir la tête pied nu, 2021

Thomas Loyatho  

Thomas Loyatho is a French artist born in 1984 in New Aquitaine, he lives in Hasparren and works in La-Bastide-Clairence.

Artistic approach

Thomas Loyatho was born in 1984. His sister, his brother (also a painter) and he grew up in their father's studio (also a painter) like in a playroom! He holds degrees in spatial planning and environmental protection. In addition to being a visual artist, he is a mountain guide.

His experiments are multidisciplinary and in touch with the material. The use of poor or sober materials does not require a technology that would surpass it and make it obsolete, but on the contrary encourages stripping, to reopen the field of possibilities. These materials have in common the fact of having a much broader semantics than that of the molds in which we want to freeze them over time and in different spaces.

Exhuming is part of his approach, these experimental investigations reveal for him an aesthetic that must be the subject of a plastic presentation.

“Certain thoughts do not escape at the moment of pronouncing them, of formulating them, of figuring them on a canvas. But most of them remain abstract, fluid. These thoughts are materials that are not subject to figuration, it is impossible to contain them in the mold of words. They want to tell us that here, words are for those who have nothing to say."

- Thomas Loyatho

Personal exhibitions

2022 • “Origine(s)", out of residency “Noire Montagne", with the collaboration of La Fabrique des

Arts, Carcassonne agglomeration and the FRAC Occitanie des Abattoirs de Toulouse in the archives

departmental Carcassonne, France

2016 • “Kofoina", Chateau Salha, Bardos, France

2015 • “Around the remains", Galerie de Wégimont, Soumagne, Belgium

2015 • “70 cm/hour", Contemporary Art Gallery, LES DRAPIERS, Liège, Belgium

Price

2018 • “Itzal Aktiboa" Prize Selection

2015 • Horlait Prize Brussels, Belgium

2013 • Prize of the city of Garazi during the prize for young creation “Itzalaktiboa", Saint-Jean-Pied-dePort