Laetitia Piccin

Laetitia Piccin (b.1986) graduated from the Fine Art school (Ecole des Beaux-Arts) in 2010 with a MA in Fine and Contemporary Art. Laetitia has since exhibited in Perpignan, Toulouse, Avignon, Belgium. She currently lives and works in London.

Laetitia makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic on canvas overlaid with thick streams of paint. In her new series, Laetitia creates new narratives combining abstractions with frenetic and fractured geometry.

Laetitia's points of departure are the music and the sounds, particularly the rough, compressed and dense electro-acoustic music of the 21st Century. Her paintings present a spectrum of visual incident where the bright colors and the large palette knife applied appear to translate fragments of musical rhythms.
Laetitia has described her canvases as a way to explore the idea of "Seeing the unseen" as a mean to suggest with expression rather than depiction.

MFA, Master of Fine Arts, Fine Art Media
Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) Perpignan, (FR) / 2008 - 10

BFA, Bachelors of Fine Arts with Distinction
Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) Perpignan, (FR) / 2005 - 08

Commissioned by the artist & Director Andreina Mastio / Sound design for film
2010-2011


'Seen on site', Licence III Gallery, Perpignan (FR)
Artist in residence
April - June 2010


‘The Centre of the World Seen from your window’
Public Art Project, Perpignan (FR)
Conducted series of participatory art events on a major urban planning development to initiate a conversation between residents, developers and the city.
2009-10


‘The Retirada’, Rigaud Museum, Perpignan (FR)
Commissioned exhibition by the city hall and the museum of Fine Art to commemorate the 20th anniversary of a historic event: “The Retirada”. In partnership with the municipal archives and the Film archive J.Vigo Institut.
2009


'Anouka', Minim’s Couvent, Perpignan (FR)
Commissioned Visual & Sound installation by the city hall
January - June 2009