Laurent Anastay Ponsolle - Volte Face

Young artist showcased at the Centre Pompidou in September 2025 for 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 vigor and spontaneity.

This work is the fruit of a performance with contemporary dancer Mathilde Plateau. It is a painting made with acrylic and charcoal. Between automatic writing and choreographed gesture, the artist paints and draws in motion, letting himself be carried by the dancer’s movements.

To better discover the approach, here is a video of another performance given at the Carreau du Temple in Paris:
https://vimeo.com/826698655?fl=pl&fe=sh

The whole is a very "raw", "raw-edged", and "sensitive" whole, qualities inherent to German figurative expressionism, a current into which the artist fully places himself. It is also a homage to Yves Saint Laurent’s creations, a designer whom the artist deeply admires.

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

Exceptionally, the artwork will be shipped without its stretcher, rolled and protected in a box with bubble wrap. Fast and careful shipment. It is also accompanied by an authenticity certificate 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 BE ANNOUNCED 2026 - October: Lyon Art Paper Fair, Palais Bondy, Lyon
TO BE ANNOUNCED 2026 - October: “Movement & Matter” group exhibition at the Maison du Chanoine, Treigny, Burgundy.

2025 - November: solo exhibition at Arkadre(s) gallery, Toulon
2025 - October: FauveParis, solo exhibition at Fauve Paris gallery, Paris
2025 - September: group exhibition at the 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, Carreau du Temple, Paris

2022 - November: artistic residency at Galerie Hors Champ in Loire-Authion, 1-month residency
2022 - June: group exhibition “Liberty” at Galerie 66 organized by Miroir de l’Art, Périgueux
2022 - May: exhibition and performance at the Solid’art fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris

2021 - October: Figurative Destructuralism, group exhibition, Parc Floral de Paris
2021 - September: Performance and group exhibition by publisher “Corridor Éléphant”, Paris

2019 – October: “Paris Artistes 2019” group exhibition, Espace Canal Saint Martin, Paris
2019 – September: “Artcité 2019” group 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 11. Selection for the exhibition “EROS”

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

2015 – October: The Affordable Art Fair – La Bellevilloise, Paris 20 – “Immersion”

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