Field of Tutip, winter, 2023

Loïc Brun  

A painter born in 1970, Loïc Brun's career has been marked by painting since his early childhood: first with his grandfather, a Breton watercolour painter, then, as a teenager, with the discovery of surrealism, a movement that would have a lasting impact on his representation of the world.

At the age of 17, he was fascinated by Salvador Dali's paranoid-critical method, and was equally captivated by the paintings and the Catalan's completely crazy explanations, which opened the way to so many possibilities for interpreting reality.

It was then the creative power of Picasso that inspired him lastingly, giving him the desire to become, in turn, a painter.

He then attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (class of Hervé Télémaque), then, in the 90s, joined a collective of squatter artists (Zen Copyright – rue de Trévise in Paris), participating in various group exhibitions.

Loïc Brun paints in oil, a technique he has loved since his adolescence and which allows him all forms of expression, on paper for sketches and especially on canvas. He often expresses himself on large formats, on which the vastness, open spaces, industrial wastelands and horizons represented by rows of houses are displayed.

"I learned that just below the surface there is another world, and then different worlds when you dig deeper." (David Lynch)

Loïc Brun's painting is above all figurative: he paints openings, breaches in the apparently overly coherent fabric of this surface that David Lynch talks about. Presences can emerge, like so many singularities in the fabric of reality: characters whose weight, on the canvas, is undeniable. Characters who do not need to possess the attributes of the human, who are content with forms in movement "emergences-resurgences" (Henry Michaux). However, it is not always necessary to "represent" in order to say and the pictorial space is sufficient in itself.