Artist
LAURENS LEGIERS
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. His solo exhibitions include: Dusk till Dawn, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2022; A Veil of Thoughts, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; and Soft Thoughts, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, 2020. He participated in group exhibitions at: Nicodim Gallery, New York, 2021; 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.
Laurens Legiers, copper rain, 2021
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Solo Exhibitions
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 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 |