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Clairon carroussel, 2025
Baptiste Laurent

Name: Clairon carroussel
Brand: Baptiste Laurent
SKU: 2443250
Price: 18000 EUR
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Painting : oil

400 x 280 x 3 cm 157.5 x 110.2 x 1.2 inch

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Painting: oil

Dimensions cm • inch

400 x 280 x 3 cm 157.5 x 110.2 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

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Horse Rider

War

Carousel

Knight

Sky blue

Red

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Artwork location: Spain

The artwork travels rolled up. And I'm offering a top-quality, disassembled aluminum and wood frame worth €700.

“Welcome to the Circus" Man can be a democrat; the artist is split in two and must remain an aristocrat. Stéphane Mallarmé. This exhibition presents the latest artistic project by Baptiste Laurent (Nantes, 1980), who has lived in Spain for over fifteen years. It reveals the tragicomedy imposed upon the end of the celebration of the international order. In the internal struggle of his creative process, he critically confronts his painting with hunting, war, and national identity, which here play the role of protagonists. Laurent revitalizes his painting by exploring his French roots, while drawing inspiration from Spanish painting and incorporating symbols of the Conquest, such as caravels, soldiers, and indigenous peoples. Through the metaphors of the circus, the carousel, amusement parks, and football, the artist caricatures the society of the spectacle, transforming culture, politics, and the construction of national identity into a carnival. The triumph of social media, the frivolity of democratic life, and the trivialization of art and literature have transformed cultural experience into an inescapable need for entertainment. It legitimizes the popular while simultaneously seeking a plastic and intellectual ideal capable of expressing the highest human emotions and sentiments, resonating with the mythology of the dreamlike. Past, present, and future merge in the face of the frenetic unfolding of the tragedy of war and the colonial memory that surrounds the West. By linking his work to his childhood, he reinvents the myths of the Wild West and the noble savage to construct a nameless drift, where masks impose a dramatic sense and dreams of glory are betrayed. Laurent resizes bodies, animals, and objects, imbuing his miniatures with a disproportionate and theatrical grandeur. His overflowing imagination, brimming with unsettling associations, is built around a virile imaginary in which he translates his individual past into a collective experience. The theatricality of his large canvases transports him into mystical and ghostly reveries, where he expresses his lyricism in harmony with his social concerns. The artist blends dissonant elements, weaving connections between his intimate world and the contemporary world through symbolic figuration, the versatility of artistic conventions, an agile, fluid, and unfinished brushstroke, the gestural quality of forms, the mixing of techniques (drawing, painting, and sculpture), the use of color inherited from the 14th-century Apocalypse Tapestry, humor, the grotesque, and the reappropriation of mythical paintings from art history, such as those by Vincent Van Gogh, Eugène Delacroix, and Gustave Moreau. Baptiste Laurent paints as he wishes: it is a vital necessity. His painting transgresses the classical order of canonical representation, oscillating between melancholy and celebration, while simultaneously awakening the viewer's empathy.

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Baptiste Laurent

France • 1980

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Baptiste Laurent (1980, Nantes) is a visual artist residing in Spain since 2007. He has exhibited in various artistic and cultural institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Madrid, the French Institute in Madrid, Esquina Nua , Espacio Seara, the Alliance Française de Madrid, the Gazzambo Gallery and the FL Gallery.

He developed his artistic practice as an autodidact, alongside his studies in political science and art history. He has been artistic director and manager of cultural projects in many cultural and artistic institutions (Palais de Tokyo, La Maison Rouge, Venice Biennale, Gallería Continua, etc.)

His traditional medium is painting, but he also works in sculpture and develops projects with a strong literary, social and anthropological component. In his recent publications and exhibitions "Mauvaises Tournures", "Bajo el mismo mar" and "Exit", he experimented with creative work in collaboration with other visual artists but also with literary authors.

He is an anti-academic, eclectic artist, who likes the syncretism of pictorial styles, and who wavers between neo-figurative narration, graphic painting, urban art and expressionist abstraction.

Founder of the "Latolier" shared studio, located in the Usera district of Madrid, he leads a dynamic community of Spanish and international visual artists.

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