Presentation
The Huberty & Breyne Gallery is delighted to announce its presence at the fifteenth edition of the Drawing Now Art Fair, the first contemporary art fair in Europe exclusively dedicated to drawing.
The two artists whose work is being showcased this year are Kevin Lucbert and Stanislas Moussé.
Kevin Lucbert is a French artist born in 1985. Having graduated from the French National School for Decorative Arts (EnsAD) in Paris in 2008, he now divides his time between Paris and Berlin.
His creations, all executed in biro, immerse the spectator in a red and blue universe composed of geometric shapes, fantastic landscapes and dreamlike scenes.
Lucbert’s references are wide-ranging (Alfred Kubin, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Philippe Mohlitz, François Schuitten and Benoît Peeters), but his style is unique, employing a plethora of tiny lines and geometric motifs to create landscapes and scenes that have a distinctly surreal quality. His figurative approach leans towards simplification and abstraction – straight lines, shadows, colour contrasts involving blue and white or blue, red and white. Lucbert’s work is reminiscent of the art of collage: assembling elements very different from one another, it succeeds in creating a narrative that is wholly new.
Lucbert’s particoloured, dreamlike images draw us in, irresistibly, exerting a haunting fascination. Whether we are looking at an urban setting, a bedroom, or a gallery in a museum, there will be something strange and unsettling about the image that disrupts the apparent serenity of the scene and arouses our curiosity.
For the Drawing Now exhibition, Lucbert is showing some recent drawings from his current series, in A4 and A2 formats.
Stanislas Moussé is a French artist, born in Loire-Atlantique in 1986. He lives and works – as a shepherd and a comic book artist – in the Bauges Mountains, in Eastern France.
Moussé has developed an iconoclastic style midway between the Flemish Primitives – his full-page drawings teeming with details remind us of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch – and contemporary art, each drawing seeming to challenge the reader’s expectations and the very rules that govern the ninth art. His approach is one of contrasts: his drawing style is simultaneously meticulous and naïve, the storyline epic and burlesque, his graphic universe a mixture of the medieval and the fantastic.
Wordless storytelling and the use of black and white are characteristics of Moussé’s work as a whole: these techniques are delicious mental illusions, inviting us to “see” certain scenes in colour – colours that the artist himself has chosen – and “hear” the words that he has written.
“I use a Rotring pen and enjoy filling my drawings with details where viewers can lose themselves for long periods of time, just looking and looking,” Moussé tells us.
Kevin Lucbert and Stanislas Moussé bring us works of hypnotic power that reveal more the more we look at them. The delicious temptation to keep on looking – that is what these works offer the viewer. And the only way to overcome such temptation is, as Oscar Wilde said, to “yield to it”!
Dates: From Thursday 19th May to Sunday 22nd May 2022, at the Carreau du Temple (75003 Paris).
Private view in the presence of the artists