Laurent Marty

Laurent Marty is a french painter, living and working in Marseille.
" My artistic practice is developed around several notions and questions : the dialectic of the figure and the background, the work in reserve, the silhouette and the backlight, the organic, the concave/convex, full/empty ambivalences.

My first ambition is to develop strange, singular, ambiguous images, having a strong graphic and chromatic presence, a real evocative power, but whose pictorial technique of ascent to the form would double this strangeness. Indeed, my paintings proceed from a reversal of the traditional construction procedure, and a questioning of the classic relationship between form and background. It is a matter of creating a contradiction between the relief of the lower layer, which suggests a certain image, and the solid outline of the upper layer, which contradicts the expected silhouette, pierces the evoked volume, destabilizes the figuration.

It's a very drawn painting. I have a requirement for perfection of the line, even on a close scan of my large formats. I am sometimes frightened by the exasperating precision I impose on myself in tracing the contours with the brush. But I fear that the chromatic excess, the formal extravagances,...

Graduated from the Fine Arts School of Marseille.

1995 European Artistic Competition SBS - Société de Banque Suisse, London, Great Britain
1997 42nd Salon de Montrouge, France
1997 Novembre à Vitry, France
1999 Juin de la Celle Saint-Cloud, France
1999 3rd prize Caisse d'Epargne painting competition, Marseilles, France
2000 Jeune Création, Paris, France
2000 Group exhibition, French Cultural Center of Seoul, South Korea
2000 Neuf éprouvettes, Group exhibition, Seoul Art Center, South Korea
2001 Collective exhibition, Association Tohu-bohu, Marseilles, France
2001 3rd International Artistic Creation Competition, Fondation Regards de Provence, Marseilles, France
2003 2nd prize of the 4th International Artistic Creation Competition, Fondation Regards de Provence, Marseilles, France
2013 29th meeting of young artists, Saint-Raphaël, France
2013 Atelier 11, Seoul, South Korea
2015 SMAC Toulon, France