最新 | Laurent Martin “Lo”成为画廊代理艺术家
我们非常高兴向大家介绍一位我们最新代理的艺术家- Laurent Martin “Lo”。
We are super excited to introduce to you a new artist to our gallery Laurent Martin also known as “Lo.”
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Laurent Martin“ Lo” (简称“Lo”)1955年出生于法国，毕业于巴黎National School Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs。自2014年以来，“ Lo”是英国皇家雕刻家学会（RBS）的成员。
Laurent Martin “Lo” was born in 1955 in France where he trained as visual artist in National School Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs (Paris). Since 2014 “Lo” is member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS).
"Lo", Smoke 03, 2019, 竹,线和陶瓷球，210x90x80cm
多年来， “Lo” 在广告和时装领域担任艺术创意总监。他第一次接触竹子是完全偶然的。1998年， “Lo”在从事室内设计项目时，想使用在他母亲花园里长出的竹子做空间规划。从那时起，“Lo” 就对竹子“一见钟情”， 并成为他的主要设计对象。“Lo”白天做广告项目，但一到晚上，他就花几个小时专门从事自己的“竹子爱好”：测试材料，检查其延伸性，阅读书籍以及学习竹子的不同种类、特性和工艺。这也驱使“ Lo”去探访全球主要产竹国，去寻找竹子的秘密。
For many years “Lo” worked as an art creative director both in advertising and fashion. His first encounter with bamboo was totally circumstantial. In 1998 while working on an interior-design project, he decided to cut and use some bamboos, which were growing at his mother's garden, in order to plan the spaces. It was “love at first sight”. Since then, bamboo becomes his obsession. “Lo” would spend his day working in advertising but every night, he would spend hours dedicated to his “bamboo hobby”: testing the material, checking its possibilities, reading books and learning about the different species, its properties and techniques. It became a passion that drove the artist to change his life and to set up on his first trip to the bamboo countries looking for bamboo’s true essence.
"Lo", Bamboo soul II, 2017, 竹,线和陶瓷球，380hx130x130cm
从2004-2013年，“ Lo”前往东南亚，开启竹之旅，他的第一站是在印度德里参加“世界竹会”，并遇见了竹建筑师Simon Velez和Oscar Hidalgo。接下来，他前往泰国，老挝，越南和印度尼西亚的偏远地区，在当地的许多社区，竹子仍然是房屋、建筑的主要材料。“ Lo”与当地的匠人生活在一起，了解并学习竹的古老制作工艺、传统和用途， 也和竹子建立了更深的感情。更重要的是，“ Lo”开始将自己的感情，创造力和建筑思维融合在竹子的创作中，摸索传统技艺与当代建筑的统一。
From 2004 -2013, “Lo” visited Southeast (Asia). During the trip he wanted to find bamboo’s inner essence. His first port-of-call was Delhi, where he attended the “World Bamboo Congress” and met bamboo’s architect Simon Velez and Oscar Hidalgo. From there he travelled to remote areas of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia where for many communities bamboo is still the main resource. Living with those he explored its particular properties and learnt of its old techniques and traditions, as well as the different uses and craftsmanship, together with the strong emotional and spiritual links. Mostly importantly, “Lo” has finally integrated bamboo’s emotional charge, his creativity and architectural dimension, discovering the fusion of traditional techniques with contemporary architecture.
"Lo"的作品放置于Massimo Dutti门店橱窗内
法国塞文山脉的La Bambouseraie是“ Lo” 回欧洲后心仪的主要竹产地。他被当地极其丰富和高品质的竹子所吸引。每隔上一段时间，“ Lo”会前往当地，在Muriel Nègre和他的团队的帮助下，挑选并切割他心仪的竹子，使其成为他艺术创作的原材料。
La Bambouseraie in Cévennes (France) is the artist’s main source of bamboo. Its great diversity, together with the high quality of these bamboos have resulted in a special relationship between the artists and La Bambouseraie. Together with Muriel Nègre and his team “Lo” selects and cuts those pieces which will then be the main elements of his artistic work.
"Lo"亲自挑选好竹子后在工作室里进行创作
从2004年起，“ Lo”往返于Alt Empordà（赫罗纳， 西班牙）的工作室和全球产竹国家之间。他的工作室原本是一个古老的工厂，但他本人对其进行了修复，以适应他的艺术创作。在工作室里，各种竹子有序地靠着墙壁或者横梁上，挑高的天花板上也悬挂着处于不同的创作阶段、形状和尺寸各异的艺术品。工厂的外部空间用来干燥作品，使其最终获得天然的古铜色光泽和形状。
From 2004 “Lo” spends his time between his house- workshop in the Alt Empordà (Girona, Spain) and traveling to he bamboo countries. His workshop is an old factory which the artists himself has restored, and adapted to develop his art. Inside, against the walls, over the beams, one can see the different pieces of bamboo. Art pieces in every shape and size, in its different stages, hung form the high ceiling. The outside space around the factory is used to dry the different pieces, where each of them acquires its patina and final shape.
"Lo"的工作室
“Lo” 的创作建立在竹子的物理和感官美之上：竹子拥有复杂的有机结构，还兼具能量和灵性。通过与竹子的亲密关系， “Lo” 在过往三十余年间淬炼出的竹雕塑兼具柔韧、稳定、精密，轻盈，数学美和诗意等元素。这也成为 “Lo” 标志性的艺术语言：将张力和压力相结合，以运动和平衡为基础的竹雕塑。他的作品往往随风轻轻摆动，有着和谐、空灵的几何之美。
His artistic palette is within the physical and sensorial virtues of bamboo: its very sophisticated organic structure, but also its energy as well as its spirituality. Establishing an intimate dialogue with bamboo, the artists experiments its flexibility, resistance, density, lightness, mathematics and poetry, a language that allows him to combine both tension and compression, creating sculptures based on movement and balance. His work seems to defy gravity and levitate. His structures swing, drawing curves and harmony in the air.
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“Lo” 通过自己的作品揭示了一种微妙的平衡：柔与力，实与虚，光与影，动与静。我们可以在作品中寻求平静，安详和自然之美。
The artist tells about a fragile harmony: flexibility and strength, fullness and void, light and shadow, movement and quietness. It encourages u to look for calm, serenity and the balance in his artworks.
"Lo"与自己的作品"冥想竹屋（medittaion bamboo hut）"
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10号赞善里画廊创办人戴天利（Katie de Tilly) 于1994年定居香港，并开始收藏当时还没受到国际高度关注的中国及亚洲当代艺术。透过与不同艺术家和文化人士接触，她对中国历史，社会状况和文化环境展开了深入了解。她于2001年成立10号赞善里画廊，专注发掘和推广亚太区艺术家，并积极推动文化艺术在香港的交流。她的第一场王克平个展让人眼前一亮，将中国当代艺术还未被世界瞩目的深厚内涵带给观众。
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