Julien Legars

For Julien Legars, the concepts of beauty and ugliness serve as the central forces of inspiration within his work. Born in France in 1982, Legars lives and works in Rouen (Normandy, France), where he forged a visual language centered on the body. Legars’ work aims to challenge our understanding of beauty, and what it means for a body to be beautiful. He takes on this challenge mainly by alternating between plastic productions and figurative paintings. In more recent years, his work has focused on the ideas of disability, monstrosity, sexuality, and gender, and how these concepts are universal yet often taboo.
(for Interkors Magazine - mars 2015)

Solo Shows

2022, Entre-vue(s), Galerie L’Oeil Histrion, Caen
2020, Alter-Ego, Galerie L’Oeil Histrion – Caen
2012, Galerie Valérie Lefebvre - Lille
2011, Rec galerie - Paris
2009, Leslie’s Art Gallery - Luxembourg
2009, Rec galerie - Paris
2006, “Fin de résidence” - Lourmarin's Castle


Group Shows:

2012, Lille Art Fair, - Lille with Galerie Valérie Lefebvre
2012, "En pleine figure", La Manicle - Le Havre - collective show
2009, SLICK Art Fair - Paris
2009, “Tout doit apparaître”, Aix en Provence
2007, “Watch your step” - Centre d’ Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie
2007, “Peinture…” Centre d’ Art Sextius - Aix en Provence
2007, “Espoir/Douceur” - Aix en Provence art school

2006, “DAAD” - Sextius Art Center - Aix en Provence
 show.


Résidences

2006, Lourmarin's Castle