Fabrice LANGLADE

Fabrice Langlade was born in Reims (Champagne) in 1964.

Raised in Paris, the spectacle of the Paris-Moscow exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1979 strongly inspired him to become an artist. He did not attend any academy, instead, at a very young age, learned from artists he encountered during his travels between Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, or Tokyo. He weaves a thread that connects the past and the future to the present, as well as the East to the West. He works almost exclusively in sculpture. Some of his works, like “UNPONTENPORCELAINEENMONGOLIE” or “MONSIEUR” are installed in nature (the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia, the forest of Allain in Lorraine) and can take on a monumental character. Others could be collected in a “cabinet of curiosities” style (Museum “de la chasse et de la Nature” in Paris). For several years, he has developed research around concept such as “White Studies”and “Floating matters”. This work is mainly composed by a corpus of Debussyian bas-reliefs (Floating Garden, Wild Orchids), post-Hellenic pedestals (Dionysos, Meta-Landscape), and a chimeric-forest ensemble (UNE ÎLE, MONSIEUR, Chimères).

His works have been exhibited in various galleries in France and elsewhere, in some institutional contexts as well as major international fairs, Art Basel, Expo Chicago, Art Basel Miami, etc. He is represented in a few public collections such as those of Le Plateau Frac ile de France, the Kyoto Costume Institute, or the Musée de la chasse et de la Nature.

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