Laurent Anastay Ponsolle - Up Side Down

Young artist showcased at the Centre Pompidou in September 2025 on the occasion of the day dedicated to French Young Creation, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle is a French expressionist artist born in 1982. Drawing, painting, collage, performance are the languages he explores with force and spontaneity.

This work is an oil painting on canvas. Taken as a whole, it presents a very “raw,” “raw-edged,” and “sensitive” aesthetic—qualities inherent to German figurative expressionism, a current in which the artist fully identifies. It is also a homage to Yves Saint Laurent’s creations, a designer whom the artist deeply admires.

It is signed on the back, by the artist’s own hand.

The work will be shipped on its stretcher, in a box with bubble wrap so that you can hang it directly in your home, at no extra cost. Fast and careful shipping. It is also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist, which will be sent by email.

Figurative Expressionism, contemporary dance, hands, night, desire, love, hands, artistic nude, Schiele, Munch, Kirchner, Yves Saint Laurent.

Notable exhibitions, performances & prizes:

TO COME 2026 - October: Salon Lyon Art Paper, Palais Bondy, Lyon
TO COME 2026 - October: “Movement & Matter” collective exhibition at Maison du Chanoine, Treigny, Burgundy.

2025 - November: solo exhibition at Arkadre(s) Gallery, Toulon
2025 - October: FauveParis, solo show at Fauve Paris Gallery, Paris
2025 - September: group exhibition at Centre Pompidou for the Day of Creation, Paris

2024 - April - September: exhibition and performance at Hôtel d’Entraigues, Uzès

2023 - September: exhibition at the Lyon Art Paper Fair, Fort de Vaise, Lyon
2023 - May: performance at the Solid’Art fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris

2022 - November: artistic residency at Galerie Hors Champ in Loire-Authion, one-month residency
2022 - June: collective exhibition “Liberty” at Galerie 66 organized by Miroir de l’Art, Périgueux
2022 - May: exhibition and performance at the Solid’art fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris

2021 - October: Figurative De-structuralism, collective exhibition, Parc Floral de Paris
2021 - September: Performance and collective exhibition by the publisher “Corridor Éléphant,” Paris

2019 – October: “Paris Artistes 2019” collective exhibition, Espace Canal Saint Martin, Paris
2019 – September: “Artcité 2019” collective exhibition, Fontenay-sous-Bois
2019 – April: “Out of Darkness” solo exhibition at Omnide++ Gallery, London, UK

2017 – October: Paris Artist 2017, Paris
2017 – February: Galerie La Ralentie, Paris 11th. Selection for the exhibition “EROS”

2016 – October: “Hugs & Possessions,” solo exhibition, Galerie DoubleS, Paris 6th
2016 – October: Paris Artistes 2016, Group Show

2015 – October: The affordable art fair – La Bellevilloise, Paris 20th – “Immersion”

2014 – October: V Gallery, Paris 11 – “Sanguine Seduction”