about
Shadow into Light
Winner of several awards for his work on glass and paper at the Salon National des Beaux Arts (2022 & 2023), Alexandre Lequœur began by etching and drawing before focusing his pictorial research on form, shadow and reflection.
Tackling themes of elusiveness, paradox and threshold spaces, he gradually came to explore the idea of painting by subtracting matter, favouring the use of blades rather than brushes.
On the glass surface of his installation-paintings, lines and geometric patterns become vectors of a shifting darkness, reacting to changes in perspective as much as to fluctuations in light.
In this way, the isolated forms, separated from the background, reveal the Shadow as the nearest distant to be explored.
Alexandre Lequœur
Born in Pithiviers, France, 1987.
Lives and works in Rennes, France.
Selected exhibitions
2024 • Solo exhibition, Orangerie, Rennes, France
2024 • Solo exhibition, La P'tite Galerie, Châteaugiron, France
2024 • Ici et toujours, (group exhibition), D Galerie / curator : D. Bertrand, Paris, France
2023 • Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris, France
2023 • P... Genèse et tombeau (group exhibition), Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris, France
2023 • Petits pays... sages (group exhibition), Galerie l'Antre Temps, Rennes, France
2023 • O.S.D., (group exhibition), B612, Rennes, France.
2023 • ÉCHO (group exhibition), Orangerie, Rennes, France
2023 • TRACES (group exhibition), La Parcelle, Rennes, France
2022 • OUVERTURE 238 (solo exhibition), Pasteur (Hotel for Projects), Rennes, France
2022 • Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Orangerie du Sénat, Paris, France
2022 • Hors les murs (group exhibition), Jeu de Paume, Rennes, France
2022 • EXPORAMA (group exhibition), different places, Rennes, France
2022 • LPMA (group exhibition), Halles Martenot, Rennes, France
2022 • M.O.I., Atelier Julie Bellec, Saint-Grégoire, France
2021 • Oh là l'art (group exhibition), Pasteur (Hotel for Projects), Rennes, France
2021 • EXPORAMA (group exhibition), different places, Rennes, France
Collections
Dotation funds of La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
and collected by various private collector in France.
Awards & Nominations
2023 • Finalist, 9th Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg
2023 • Prix Aide ADAGP, Paris, France
2022 • Silver Medal at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2022 • Prix du Géant des Beaux-Arts at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Residencies
2024 • 'Demande à la poussière', Pasteur (Hotel for Projects), Rennes, France
2023 • Short stay, B612, Rennes, France
2022 • Research et creation, Pasteur (Hotel for Projects), Rennes, France
Selected Press & Interviews
Dominique Vasseur, "Alexandre Lequœur, artiste du contraste", Mlle Adèle, 2023
Samuel Nohra, "Traces, l’exposition qui va étonner vos sens", Ouest France, 2023
Elisa Goudou, "Réunir l'invisible et l'ombre", Mlle Adèle, 2022
Agnès Le Morvan, "L’artiste A. Lequœur primé au salon des Beaux-Arts", Ouest France, 2022
Alexis Becquelin, "La création artistique en FabLab" (Master's thesis), Rennes 2 University, 2022
Publications
Alexandre Lequœur, L'Élaboration de l'aube. Rennes, éd. La Centaurée, 2024 (forthcoming)
Professional contributions
2023 • Workshop "Déployer l’XP" (graphic arts/digital tools), EDULAB Rennes 2, France.
2023 • Workshop "L’Expérience de la ligne" with Lyz B. (cellist), Rennes 2 University, France.
2023 • Teaching artist for "L'École-Logis", Pasteur (Hotel for Projects), Rennes, France.
2021-2023 • "The Line Experiment", workshop leader with Lyz B. (cellist), Rennes, France.
2012 • Curator for "Coïncidences" (group exhibition), Galerie L'Aléatoire, Paris, France.