Baptiste Laurent - "Rayon sur crique calaver", XL acrylic posca on paper, 2016

"Rayon sur crique calaver", 160x110cm", XL acrylic posca on paper, 2016.
Signed on back. Sold unframed, shipped rolled.
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Series/ "Under the Same Sea" 2016-2017
The exhibition and illustrated novella “Under the Same Sea” is an approach from painting and literature to the tragedy of shipwrecks and deaths in the Mediterranean. It avoids the frontality of pamphleteering or the rhetoric of explicit denunciation to propose a deep reflection, through the keys of art, on the social, political and ethical challenge posed by the situation of tens of thousands of migrants who die each year trying to reach Europe. The series is composed of about sixty Chinese ink on paper and plastic, and about twenty large formats in acrylic and oil on paper and canvas. This exhibition and its book were presented in Madrid (2016) and Tangier (2017).

Bio artiste/
Baptiste Laurent (1980, Nantes) is a visual artist who lives and works
in Madrid and Paris.
He has exhibited at various artistic and cultural institutions,
including the Institut français de Madrid, Le Palais de Tokyo, Galeria
La Caja, Esquina Nua, Espacio Seara, Gazzambo Gallery, Alliance
française, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Galeria FL.
His traditional medium is painting, but he also works in sculpture
and develops projects with a strong literary, social and
anthropological component.
In his latest publications and exhibitions, "Conversaciones y
puñetazos", "Mauvaises Tournures", "Bajo el Mismo Mar" and "Exit",
he has repeatedly experimented with collaborative creative work
with other visual artists and literary authors.
As an anti-academic and eclectic artist, he likes to syncretise
pictorial styles, oscillating between neo-figurative narrative, graphic
painting and expressionist abstraction.
Founder of the 'Latolier' shared studio in Madrid's Usera district, he
leads a dynamic community of Spanish and international visual
artists.