Loreen Evdubois (1975) - General

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Original painting by the French artist and physician Loreen Evdubois (1975).

Title: "General"
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2022
Size: 30 x 30 cm.
Signed: Yes, on the front, bottom right. On the back, signed again, titled and repeatedly stamped.
Certificate of authenticity: the two stamps on the back are equivalent and serve a similar function to a certificate of authenticity.

About the artist:
Loreen Evdubois, born July 10, 1975 in Toulouse, France, is a contemporary artist whose extraordinary biography and profound body of work are inextricably intertwined. Raised in a highly art-loving family, she was exposed from early childhood to groundbreaking creative impulses. Famous figures such as Pierre Soulages or Daniel Buren frequented her home, which from the start shaped her visual perception. Before her academic and medical career, Evdubois worked as a fashion model for renowned fashion houses in Paris – a phase she ultimately left behind to pursue a radical, nomadic search for her own identity. Her artistic oeuvre is strictly conceptual and is divided into three distinct, biographically motivated creative phases. The first phase covers her childhood and adolescence up to age 16. Here Evdubois focused mainly on intensive study, imitation, and playful collaborations with artists in her immediate surroundings. It was a time of carefree mastering of technical basics and visual experiments. Her second, perhaps most intense phase reflects a period of self-discovery marked by flight and transformation between 1996 and 2000. The particular aspect of this phase is its quantitative limitation, as the painted work consists of exactly four oil paintings, each embodying a fictional, authentically lived identity and life station. The first work “Lara” (1996–1997) symbolizes her first self-selected identity after abruptly ending her modeling career and fleeing from Paris to Brussels with a suitcase full of money. This was followed by “Juli” (1997–1998), which captures the most emotionally extreme time of her life in London, where she experienced the greatest personal happiness alongside her partner Kuba Migulerski, only for it to be crushed suddenly by his death. The third painting “Anita” (1998–1999) deals with a dark chapter in Saudi Arabia, where Evdubois lived in Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s harem in Riyadh and experienced a reality marked by isolation. The fourth and final painted identity, “Wanda” (1999–2000), was created in Warsaw and shows the artist’s attempt to preserve memories of her great love and the desperate hope for his survival. The third and final phase heralded the transition into adulthood and a realignment of her career. Evdubois ceased oil painting altogether and turned primarily to drawings and complex collages during and after her medical studies, which explicitly engage with anatomical themes.