Goya, 2021

Baptiste Laurent   Emerging artists

Bad Turns, 2022

This collaborative art project by Baptiste Laurent, Yann Leto, and Léo Faber, in which six hands paint more than 17 canvases of varying sizes, presents itself as a kind of artistic laboratory. Art history has seen numerous experiments of this type, from the 15th century to the present day.

However, the key elements are the working method and the artistic and personal identity of the artists. The first element is defined by the rules of the game and its consequences, which are perceived as a boxing match, a sword duel, or a game of chess. The second element is their artistic and personal identity, defined by their tastes, styles, and inner worlds.

These French people from Bordeaux, Metz and Nantes who came to live in Spain embody the literary and cinematographic figures of the hero (The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas) and the anti-hero (Sergio Leone's film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

These imaginary representations highlight the human and ethical dilemmas that define the human condition, poised between individualism and solidarity. In their paintings, they engage in a serious, rigorous, comic, and absurd conversation about painting itself and the history of contemporary art. Their paintings are rooted in the aesthetics of European neo-figuration, particularly German painting, enlivened by pop and urban touches from the American world and French comics.

These painters gave birth to a theory of form. This exhibition explores the figure of genius, artistic authenticity, and personal ethics. These collaborative experiences give these creators new impetus in the face of new challenges. They carry with them new ways of solving problems, innovating, and continuing to paint from the most intimate emotion: the pleasure of painting.

“The hat trick", text by Pablo Barrios, curator of the exhibition.