Lucas Ngo - white octopus

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- Brand new
- Painting created in Berlin but currently located in France.
- Painting sold with certificate of authenticity to be transmitted to the buyer

Lucas Ngo - painting and water
The painting has something of liquid. Lucas Ngo's figures are always on the verge
of dissolving, melting, becoming something else. Rarely named, his models are already ghosts, Ghost Boys whose certain parts of the body are already erased, or in reserve. Here one arm is missing, elsewhere the legs, a part of the head. It is partly the effect of a framing, perhaps a play of light and shadow contrast, but it is all the more visible as the rest of the body is drawn. The contour work that tames color fades in places and becomes porous; thus the body becomes sensation, and a state of the body above all. Using oil in a singular way, on canvas or on paper but always with the addition of water, he suggests a troubled surface. The drips share with emotions that one can only provoke and not control. Lucas Ngo paradoxically offers portraits that evade the gaze, do not settle, do not offer a fixed identity. Everything is a matter of evasion, as if memory cannot be retrieved by looking at it straight on. Orpheus did not bring back Eurydice. There, a boy seems to be taking off his t-shirt, another moves away; melancholy becomes tangible. Because everything is impermanent, his bodies as well as the landscapes he presents can be the site of variations. Close in spirit to mountain and water paintings, the Chinese model of Shanshui, his rivers and waterfalls have something more symbolic than realistic. The painting does not situate itself in this world but right next to it, and the effects of water create a porosity.

Henri Guette

Formation:
2015/2017: National Higher Diploma of Plastic Expression (DNSEP); Beaux-Arts d'Angoulême (EESI) Options "emerging practices"
2015: Haw Hamburg Mobility / Department of Design / 1 semester
2014-2015: Atelier Truffino, Brussels; Master-copy, initiation to old painting
2013/2015: Bachelor in Visual Arts, Comics option

Exhibition:
2024 "Daemonium" Collective exhibition, Galerie Nocte. Paris
2023 "Mono Exhibition" Collective exhibition, ExtractArt. Berlin
2023 "Interface" Collective exhibition, Zemin. Berlin
2023 "Geisterjungen" Personal exhibition, Galerie Kollaborative. Berlin
2023 Hors-Champs Gallery; Collective exhibition. Paris
2023 Pierre David-Weill Prize; Collective exhibition. Paris
2023 "Hidden Flames" Collective exhibition, Haze Gallery. Berlin
2022 "Listen to the Ink Speak" Collective exhibition, La Tréso. Paris
2022 "Hybric Visuals" Collective exhibition, Oyoun. Berlin
2022 "Illusion" Collective exhibition, P7 Gallery. Berlin
2022 The Ballery; Collective exhibition. Berlin
2022 "In Bloom" Collective exhibition, The drey. Berlin
2021 French Center in Berlin; Collective exhibition. Berlin
2021 "Home Sweet Home" Collective exhibition, GlogauAir. Berlin
2021 Galerie du Génie de la Bastille; Duo with Simon Margat. Paris
2021 Galerie Esther&Paul ; Collective exhibition. Paris
2020 "Playing with Balance" Personal exhibition, Cogalleries. Berlin
2020 "Die Natur Der Dinge" Collective exhibition, Project Space Kimgo. Berlin
2019 "Epagôgè" Collective exhibition, Espace 59 Rivoli. Paris
2018 "Habiter la frontière" Collective exhibition, Confort Moderne. Poitiers.