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L'AME Galerie - Luc Templier

Stand: H22
Contemporary drawings painting or sculptures (of living artists)
https://www.luctemplier.com

About us

L'AME Galerie:
Art, Mediation, Expression,
Artist Representation
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L'AME galerie
exclusively presents
LUC TEMPLIER

Luc Templier's artistic approach revolves around the "Painting-Writing" duo with an emotional purpose, whether in the books he calligraphs and paints entirely on a single sheet, in his gestural calligraphy, or in his magnificent "Imaginary Museums." These performances, in the form of conceptual "exploits," touch on the sacred, on pure poetry, and leave the viewer speechless.
For Luc Templier, art is not a pastime; his works are ways of passing through walls. They are much more than a passing distraction or a cheap consolation; they are powerful levers, vibrant invitations to change.
For Luc Templier, it is not enough for his painting to be technically flawless; It must be intoxicating, it must provoke existential, spiritual, and humorous shocks, without which no depth is revealed.
A breathtaking work, a must-see!

A Franco-Belgian writer, visual artist, and calligrapher with a degree in "Visual Arts and Art Sciences" from the University of Paris I, Luc Templier lives in Marche-en-Famenne. He has worked as an actor and director, has also run an advertising agency, and was later a museum curator.
He shares his passions between writing novels and essays; calligraphy and painting; theater; and the workshops and lectures he passionately leads.
In 2012, he received the Godefroid Culture Prize, recognizing his entire artistic career.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
LUC TEMPLIER EXHIBITION
Paintings, drawings, calligraphy

CONTACTS:
Website: www.luctemplier.com
@luctemplier
https://www.instagram.com/luctemplier/
Email: luc.templier@marche.be

PRESS CONTACT: Anne-Marie Desclée de Maredsous
Tel: +32 (0)477 369 315
anne.marie.desclee@skynet.be

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Palimpseste 2 - 2017

Acrylic, oil, and ink on Arche paper - 57 cm x 41 cm. "Palimpsest": Parchment from which the first writing has been erased to allow for the writing of a new text. These works add to the strangeness, blending truth and falsehood, spontaneity and mastery in a disturbing setting. This series suggests the impermanence of writing. The successive layers cancel each other out, conflict, or interact in a mysterious arrangement. However, despite this impression of contradictory layers, of different time periods overlapping, there is ultimately a unity that forms a strange work and traps the eye—like the "Exquisite Corpse" play so dear to the Surrealists.

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Le Musée Imaginaire

Tributes to Iconic Painters - Each work: acrylic and oil on wood panels 62 cm X 62 cm In this series of paintings "Tributes" to the painters who have enriched and nourished him, the artist writes lives like icons—or even hagiographers. It is indeed writing as much as painting. Isn't it said that one "writes" an Icon? By revisiting the famous works of artists, creating a sort of "painted collage," mixed with invented or real texts that retrace the essence of these painters' careers, Luc Templier seeks to place the "viewer" in an emotional context. Each painting is the quintessence of the work, as if that were all that remained after having wrung out the Master's canvases. Here again, in a single glance, through a recomposition, he seeks to give the impression of being able to grasp a destiny, a story, to arouse admiration, then contemplation. Each of our lives is a puzzle whose pieces don't necessarily fit together, some of which are missing, or others deliberately hidden. The puzzle is always an illusion. The "Homage" paintings are iconic snapshots by Picasso, Magritte, Van der Weyden, Leonardo da Vinci… other variations were possible. The "series" could expand and create, with other painters, a fresco in the form of an "Imaginary Museum" (Malraux), a subjective puzzle, but one that Luc Templier's powerful figuration and dazzling technical mastery make essential. The technique used (oil) is highly advanced, giving pride of place to ancient techniques and know-how in order, once again, through a certain quest for perfection and the desire for technical prowess, to awaken the viewer's emotions.

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Grand Geste - 2023

Acrylic, oil, and ink on Arche paper - 133 cm x 38 cm. The gestures are rapid and dazzling. To achieve this, the painter hovers above the surface, awaiting a surge, a void, an inner calm from which only fluidity, the perfection of curves, and the authenticity of momentum can emerge. For this work, the artist had previously placed horizontal stripes to create reserves. These created ruptures, in which the artist's tools are painted in a trompe-l'oeil manner, seem at odds with the thoughtless and spontaneous impulse of the gestures. The tools of the "painter-calligrapher-writer" are painted in these reserves.