Artist

LAURENS LEGIERS

Biography
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Laurens Legiers (b.1994) received his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2018 and now lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. 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. Legiers has had solo exhibitions A Veil of Thoughts at Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Soft Thoughts at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2020. He participated in group exhibitions at: Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, 2021; PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2021; The Hole, New York, 2021; Ramp Gallery, London, 2020; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, 2020; KOP VZW, Antwerp, 2019; Alpha Gallery, Antwerp, 2019; and Souterrain, Antwerp, 2018.
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Laurens Legiers, copper rain, 2021

Solo Exhibitions

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

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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