Laurent Prudot

 After studying at ENSAD and ESAG, he first worked as an illustrator, then as a graphic designer and painter. Laurent Prudot is a French artist.

Painting as a fullness of colour

Painting until then in a figurative style, it was in 2012 following his installation in Burgundy that a real renaissance took place in Laurent Prudot's work. Figuration then completely disappeared from his preoccupations, and it was at the end of that year when his first loves were cowardly abandoned that his interest in the abstract became the focus of his research. In total contradiction with his previous works, Laurent Prudot now sees life as an explosion of light and colour.

A "geometric" abstraction

It was at this time that the use of his "Monotempreintes", a mixture of monotype, imprint, stamp and engraving that he himself made, resurfaced. This abstraction, which he describes as "geometric", takes the form of regular squares and other vertical lines, with an idea of repetition and reassertion that is very present in all his work. He explores the different possible variations and plays between the intensity of the colours and the white of the support, which gives his approach all its singularity. From the figurative style of his early days, the artist has evolved into a clearer, more architectural, more constructed art.

An emotional experience

Paul Valéry's words could easily be attributed to Laurent Prudot: "Nothing is more dangerous than making painting speak. Painting is something to look at". According to Laurent Prudot, abstract painting must remain an emotional experience for the viewer and is not intended to express the deep feelings of any artist. Thus, thanks to the importance of rhythm between form and space, her work expresses itself and succeeds in engaging her audience in a true poetic experience.

LAURENT PRUDOT - MONOTEMPREINTES AND STAINS -

Strength, power, pictorial vibrations, mathematical abstraction, immaculate rhythms, raw, natural or mixed colours, Laurent PRUDOT's optical and kinetic art follows Vasarely, Yvaral, Buren or Morelet.He does not impose anything but lets himself be appreciated and watched so that the spectator's brain can adopt him.

His creation captivates us with its fantastic and at the same time its apparent simplicity, the result of an immense amount of design work and flawless execution. 

The break in the rhythm due to the use of his tools with their very random rendering, the changing colour, the repetitive and even obsessive space of the randomly submitted motif, whose result is uncertain, can surprise.

Accident and irregularity play a very precise role: by anchoring the gaze on the particularity of the detail, they knowingly disturb the vibratory and hypnotic continuum of the whole. 

In Laurent PRUDOT's work, the often sensual imperfection of the graphic act reveals the irremediably material nature of this "optical" art, whose lines and tasks are at the limit of the "viewable". He atomizes his lines of tasks to make them vibrate in the space of the canvas, which results from a continuous dialogue between two antagonistic principles of abstraction: on the one hand, the precise and systematic geometry of optical art, as a matrix of visual phenomena and, on the other hand, the emphasis, this time of expressionist or informal obedience, on the operations, traces and other "painterly" accidents inherent to the execution of the work. Which Laurent Prudot takes care of.

It is up to us to adopt it, to vibrate, even if sometimes the force with which it involves us disrupts our tastes and our artistic representations of painting. Laurent PRUDOT makes us discover other sensations, other spaces, other lives...