Artist

LAURENS LEGIERS

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Laurens Legiers, born in Antwerp in 1994, now lives and works in Antwerp. He received his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2018. He draws on the images from Romanticism and the atmosphere they encapsulate, reinventing some of the signature tropes and creating his own library of tributes to the everyday snapshots of beauty and harmony. Working with imagery that connects with a certain romantic idea on a contextual level, while carrying a clean and notable sense of volume to it, Legiers uses his subjects to construct captivating and perplexing visuals. With a focus on the motif as a whole, rather than on details and separate features, the visuals appear soft, almost graphic, and are the perfect base for the light and shadow play he performs on the surface of his paintings. The quietness and pleasantness of the symmetric compositions that constitute the pristine scenes are further pushing his oeuvre towards the surreal idyll. Solo exhibitions include: ​Drifting Onshore, Gallery Vacancy at Taipei Dangdai, 2023; If Only, Nicodim, New York, 2023; Dusk till Dawn, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2022; A Veil of Thoughts, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Soft Thoughts, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2020. Recent group exhibitions include: DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York, 2023; Walking, Running, Falling, L21 Gallery, Palma, 2022; Hollow Moon, Nicodim Gallery, New York, 2021; and Rewilding, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, 2021.
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Laurens Legiers, copper rain, 2021

Solo Exhibitions

2023    Drifting Onshore, Gallery Vacancy at Taipei Dangdai, TW
2023    If Only, Nicodim, New York, US
2022    Dusk till Dawn, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2021    A Veil of Thoughts, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    Soft Thoughts, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2019    The Wunderwall, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE


Group Exhibitions

2023    DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York, US
2022    Walking, Running, Falling, L21 Gallery, Palma, ES
2021    Hollow Moon, Nicodim Gallery, New York, US
2021    Rewilding, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2021    An Absolute Reality, Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, ES
2021    Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, US
2021    QUIXOTIC, Ramp Gallery, London, UK
2021    Lost In Translation, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2020    Universes 3, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
2020    L’Heure Bleue, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2019    Arcades, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2019    Huisje tuintje galeristje, KOP VZW, Antwerp, BE
2019    Velvet Ropes, gifc. Showhouse JayJay, Antwerp, BE
2018    Schilderwerken, Souterrain, Antwerp, BE
2017    Kunst werkt_3, Gallery Schoots + Van Duysen, Plein Publiek, Antwerp, BE

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