Biography
Frédéric, Pierre LEMONNIER was born in 1973 in Soissons (France). Nourished by his travels, his love of cultures, and his studies of philosophy, art history, languages and music, he is constantly in search of meaning and uses a wide range of media to highlight his conception of the world. "It is at...
Frédéric, Pierre LEMONNIER was born in 1973 in Soissons (France). Nourished by his travels, his love of cultures, and his studies of philosophy, art history, languages and music, he is constantly in search of meaning and uses a wide range of media to highlight his conception of the world. "It is at 46 years old that suddenly, as if taken by an irrepressible desire to express myself differently, after 30 years of "pictorial silence", I start painting again: I paint my world, multicoloured, multicultural, my homophobic aggression, my ideal vision of love, I paint the betrayal of man by man, his solitude. I don't care about pictorial trends or fashions, what I want is to make light emerge from a dark world: to make sense!"
It is in the gesture of the brush on the canvas, in the glow of a scarlet red... that meaning is revealed, according to him, in what it has of intuitive such an immeasurable link to the essence of things. The artist neither represents nor reproduces intentionally, he means: "it is neither the rational explanation, nor the outdated emotion that I am looking for, but the depth of the twilight in order to surprise the dawn! Between a poetic semi-figurative and an abstract narrative, his creations paint the human treason (its barbarity) through the wandering of oblong forms in the silent color. Thus, in his creation, from the dark, always emerges the clarity!
He uses linen or cotton canvas, acrylic sometimes and more often oil for the smoothness and the brightness of the color. He receives the influence of a whole cultural world (as much from the expressionism of Munch or Kandinsky, as from the abstraction of Soulages or Hartung). But his main orientation is the expression of a meaning, and its quasi mystical reading by the spectator.
