Baptiste Laurent - Constellation 2

"Constellation 2", 125x110cm, acrylic on paper, 2018.
Signed on back. Sold unframed, shipped rolled.

Bio artiste/
Baptiste Laurent (1980, Nantes) is a visual artist who live and work
in Madrid and Paris.
他在马德里和巴黎生活工作。
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.
他的作品曾在多家艺术与文化机构展出，包括马德里法国学院、东京国立美术馆、La Caja画廊、Esquina Nua、Espacio Seara、Gazzambo画廊、法兰西联盟、马德里民族人类学博物馆、Galeria FL。

His traditional medium is painting, but he also works in sculpture
and develops projects with a strong literary, social and
anthropological component.
他的传统媒介是绘画，但他也从事雕塑，并开展具有强烈文学、社会与人类学成分的项目。

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.
在他最近的出版物和展览中，如《Conversaciones y puñetazos》、《Mauvaises Tournures》、《Bajo el Mismo Mar》以及《Exit》，他多次与其他视觉艺术家和文学作者进行合作创作。

As an anti-academic and eclectic artist, he likes to syncretise
pictorial styles, oscillating between neo-figurative narrative, graphic
painting and expressionist abstraction.
作为一位反学术、兼容并包的艺术家，他喜欢将绘画风格混合统一，在新具象叙事、图像绘画与表现主义抽象之间摇摆。

Founder of the 'Latolier' shared studio in Madrid's Usera district, he
leads a dynamic community of Spanish and international visual
artists
在马德里Usera区创办了“Latolier”共享工作室，他领导着一个充满活力的西班牙与国际视觉艺术家群体

Série Exit/
Exit 系列/
Exit is a series of plastic works and a book that have
been the subject of three exhibitions, at the Alliance
Française de Madrid, the Museo Antropológico de
Madrid and the Gazzambo Gallery in 2018 and 2019.
Exit 是一组塑造性作品与一本书，曾在2018与2019年于马德里法兰西联盟、马德里民族人类学博物馆与Gazzambo画廊举行三次展览。

Balanced between paintings and sculptures, the Exit
series is a pictorial and imaginary account of the
migrant's journey, exile and ultimate success.
Exit 系列在绘画与雕塑之间取得平衡，是对移民之旅、流亡与最终成功的一种绘画与想象的叙述。

The sculptures were created around a workshop at
the Museo Antropológico de Madrid, in collaboration
with Senegalese immigrants in Madrid. Mame
Mbaye (one of the participants in this workshop), a
street vendor, died of a heart attack while being
chased through the streets of Madrid by the police.
这些雕塑是在马德里民族人类学博物馆的一次工作坊中创作，协助来自马德里的塞内加尔移民。参加该工作坊之一的街头小贩Mame Mbaye，在被警方追逐穿过马德里街头时因心脏病发死去。

This tragic event triggered a popular revolt in the
Lavapiés neighborhood.
这起悲剧事件在Lavapiés街区引发了一场民众起义。

As a tribute to Mame Mbaye, the series refers to the
collection of plaster casts of indigenous faces
exhibited in the Anthropological Museum. This
confrontation contrasts with formal evocations of
social science sculpture, traditional ceramic
sculpture, death masks, orientalist art and trophies.
向Mame Mbaye致敬，该系列参照了在人类学博物馆展出的原住民面部石膏模型收藏。这种对比与社会科学雕塑、传统陶瓷雕塑、死亡面具、东方主义艺术与奖杯的形式暗示形成对照。

The impact of this mixture of contradictory effects
attempts to reflect the paradoxes of the reception of
refugees in Europe.
这种矛盾效果的混合，试图反映欧洲对待难民的接受中的矛盾。

Without the rigour that characterises the
anthropologist's or the scientist's approach, but
imitating their processes, the aim is to sketch a
subjective sample of the new human figures living in
Europe