"Bretagne - Pont L'Abbe" by Philippe Laurent.

Watercolor on paper
48 x 36 cm

Laurent is a plastics artist, musician and designer. Whether working with graphical or digital codes, plastic arts or music, Laurent's approach is that of research specifically to do with the perception of signs and symbols relating to people. As a multimedia artist, he has always been open to new technologies, whether composing musical works or creating graphical works.

During the 1990s, he became a point of reference with his interdisciplinary work at exhibitions in France and Germany, designing complex pieces that blended various advanced techniques. His paintings - the illusion of calligraphy on monochromatic backgrounds - pose a question about the relationship between signs and meanings. Philippe Laurent develops figurative and partly abstract ideograms, aiming to never repeat the same figure twice, like the writing of a lost continent or an original language, a code that would have preceded all other languages ​​and that would have been lost. This ambiguous play raises the fundamental question of the ontological state of the written language in our Western societies. Philippe Laurent has completed lengthy personal study of the shapes of the first symbols and letters which led to the sublime nature of an esoteric alphabet.