VM24-MTP NEG MULTI # EDJ 12.10-218, 2024

Laurent Prudot  

Painting as a fullness of color

Painting until then in a semi-figurative style, it was in 2012 following his move to Burgundy that a real renaissance took place in Laurent Prudot's work.

The form then completely disappears from his concerns, and it is at the end of this year 2012 that his interest in the abstract becomes the center of his research.

In total contradiction with his previous works, Laurent Prudot now sees life as an explosion of light and colors.

It was at this time that the use of his "Monotamprientes", a mixture of monotype, imprint, and stamp, which he made himself, resurfaced.

This abstraction that he describes as “geometric" takes the form of regular squares and other vertical line-signs, with an idea of repetition and assumed rehashing very present in all of his work.

He explores the different possible variations and plays between the intensity of the colors and the white of the support, which gives his approach all its singularity.

From the semi-figurative style of his beginnings, the artist has evolved towards a clearer, more architectural, more constructed art.

We could easily attribute Paul Valéry's words to Laurent Prudot: "Nothing is more dangerous than making painting speak. Painting is something to look at."

Thus, thanks to the importance of rhythm between forms and space, his work expresses itself and succeeds in engaging his audience in a true poetic experience.