Lucas Ngo - Emerger - XL

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- New, never exhibited
- Artwork sold with certificate of authenticity

Lucas Ngo - of painting and water
The painting has something liquid about it. 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 some parts of the body are already erased, or kept in reserve. Here a arm is missing, elsewhere the legs, a part of the head. It is partly a matter of framing, perhaps a play of light and shadow, but it is all the more visible because 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 above all a state of the body. Using oil in a singular way, on canvas or on paper but always with the addition of water, he suggests a disturbed surface. The runs have that in common with emotions that one can only provoke and not control. Lucas Ngo paradoxically offers portraits that elude the gaze, do not come back to themselves, do not offer a fixed identity. It is all a matter of evasion, as if memory cannot be found by fixing it frontally. Orpheus did not bring Eurydice back. There, one 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 variation. 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 sit in this world but right next to it, and water effects create a porosity.

Henri Guette

Education:
2015/2017: National Diploma of Higher Education in Plastic Expression (DNSEP); École des Beaux-Arts d'Angoulême (EESI) Options “emerging practices”
2015: Haw Hamburg Mobility Department of Design / 1 semester
2014-2015: Atelier Truffino, Brussels; Copy of master, initiation to ancient painting
2013/2015: Bachelor's degree in visual arts, option Comics

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