Painter
about
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who he is
Painter
Artistic approach
(Meeting / Talks with Lisa De Visscher, Editor-in-Chief A + Review)
The ‘smooth’, indifference, silence, industrialization of ‘banal violence’, collective suffering, ignorance, their particular and global incidences, are the foundation of his pictorial work. These works show how subject, framing, techniques and medium are linked to create this parallel world where enigma and mystery reign in a fragmented world, with vague contours.’
(Interview with L. De Visscher: A+ review Belgium / ‘the massacre of the innocents’)
Cosmogony. Creation. Nature awakens, thrives, slumbers in an inexorable becoming. The emergence is observed, the multiplicity questioned, the emotions recorded. The creative act becomes sensations, thoughts, revelations. The astonishment is “alive”. Forms, materials, light, darkness unite in a composition of oppositions, in a harmonious combat. Lucid knowledge and disconcerting creation. “Everything changes and all things are born to return to the fundamental law through successive changes” (Heraclitus)
(Luc Mabille paintings’ L. Simon art historian / professor ESA St luc Liège Belgium)
Mother earth will swallow you.
Luc MABILLE’s painting tells us the story of a tragic, but discreet tale, of plant spaces with erased textures. Favoring for his palette either pigments with saturated frequencies or obscure intensities, the artist composes his wooded landscapes like clusters of vibrating atoms, whose chromatic ranges agglomerate in filmy refractions. Brilliant and diffuse swarming of pigmentary units with contrasting polarities.
Mabille paints the substantial imprint of evanescent bites of light and afflicts the negatives of these spaces with heaviness. Irradiated nature that challenges as much as it surprises; it is a luminescent contemplation for the gaze, but with bursts etching the retina with an imprint of ablaze nature.
The latter at MABILLE freezes in prismatic colorations of consciousness, in figurative jets cutting sharpness and everyday life, in ultimate flashes heralding the dissipation of existence and the beginning of memory.
(Pierre Hubeaux-Colon / galerie Chrisitine Colon / Luc Mabille paintings’)
” The Conversation ” (a tribute to Lucas Cranach) is offered as an updated quotation from a famous work in the history of art; Cranach’s Adam and Eve (1528) presented itself as a diptych welcoming these opposing and complementary beings from the Garden of Eden. MABILLE here remodulates the canonical association, by metamorphosing the original couple into two trees with distant sensualities.
MABILLE thus moves the sacred to a new place, invites us to take a fresh look at a nature, sometimes invisible but essential, in which resides an unalterable truth. This nature in MABILLE is as much present as it escapes us; the vision we have of it can get blurred, and already appear to us only as a memory. The artist’s technique focuses on the saturation and metamorphosis of the plant motif by light. This painted nature that is presented to us, when we approach it, distorts, bursts, in a teeming abstraction of colored material.
(Pierre Hubeaux-Colon / galerie Chrisitine Colon / Luc Mabille about “the Conversation” painting’ )
Several paintings develop the themes of accumulation, saturation and destruction by exploring the pictorial territories. ‘The World order’, a pile of rubbish with a technique almost ‘pop art’, an accumulation of plastic objects that float on the water, dead fish in a black water ‘sweet river’, painted with a quick touch.
The series ‘The massacre of the innocents’ shows the meat from different angles. Small size with a piece of meat still identifiable, framed as a portrait, large format where, again, the accumulation confronts us with the madness and obsession with consumption. A pile of meat, blood and fat, iced behind a plexiglass. The glass is essential: it reflects the image of the viewer, confronts it with itself. In some places, it has been blurred, which gives an even more plastic effect of the material. In the extension of the same theme, we find ‘Fat painting’ and ‘night profusion’, a triptych of small framed formats showing two hamburgers in close-up and the contents of a bin. Mabille develops here the theme of destruction by making a direct link with food and our body. “We produce things that destroy us by destroying the planet. “
Finally, back to nature. A nature like a mother, certainly, but not one that will comfort us. ‘Silent trees’ shows a very violent image of the destruction of the forest, accentuated by encaustic. Three-color acrylic paint – Payne Gray, Cobalt Blue, White – and Wax
Another large format explores even more the theme of the earth. It shows a plowing, worn and tired earth painted in a very cut-out touch. A very plastic painting in his technique and his theme without mercy: “Mother earth will swallow you. “… ‘
(Lisa De Visscher / Editor-in-Chief A + review ‘architecture in Belgium / Luc Mabille about the “Massacre des Innocents”)
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Exhibitions
Painter
Here is a list of my former exhibitions since 2018
2023 :
Galerie C-APS
Museum of Art and History of Brussels, Cinquantenaire, Brussels
‘The solo project’
Duo exhibition
2023 :
Galerie S&H De Buck
Oiron (Paine et vallées) / France
‘Where have all the flowers gone ? ‘
Group exhibition
2023 :
Galerie Christine Colon
Rue St Remy, 12 4000 Liège / Belgium
Duo exhibition
2023 :
Galerie S&H De Buck
Zuidstationstraat, 25 Gent / Belgium
‘Where have all the flowers gone ? ‘
Group exhibition
2022 :
Galerie S&H De Buck
Zuidstationstraat, 25 Gent / Belgium
‘Pleasant encounters- ontmoetingen – rencontres
Group exhibition
2022 :
Royal Academy of Arts London
Burlington house, Picccadilly , London / England
‘Summer Exhibition 2022’
Group exhibition
2022 :
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège ‘ La Boverie’
Parc de la Boverie Liege / Belgium
‘En Piste 2022’
Group exhibition
2022 :
Galerie Christine Colon (Waremme)
Rue G. Joachim, 42 4300 Waremme / Belgium
‘Salon de Printemps’
Group exhibition
2021 :
Galerie C-APS
Oosthelling,8 8400 Oostende
‘Paperwork II :paintings and drawings’
Group exhibition (Around Roger Raveel)
2020 :
Musée Curtius Liège
Rue Feronstrée 136 4000 Liege / Belgium
Innerspace Vol 6
Group exhibition
2020 :
Galerie Christine Colon
Rue St Remy, 12 4000 Liège / Belgium
‘Luc Mabille § Lieven Demunter’
Duo exhibition (peintures / sculptures)
2019 :
Galerie C-APS
Rivoli Building -Espace #espace32
ch. de Waterloo, 690
1180 Bruxelles / Belgium
‘Hans Deffer- Luc Mabille :
paintings and drawings’ /
Duo exhibition
2019 :
Galerie LAVAL
Rue St Sevrin, 117 4000 Liège / Belgium
‘Académie & galerie’
Group exhibition
2019 :
Galerie C-APS
Oosthelling,8 8400 Oostende / Belgium
‘Paperwork :paintings and drawings’
Group exhibition
2018 :
Espace OPTO-BI
Hors Château 64 4000 Liège Belgium
‘Le massacre des innocents’
Solo exhibition
contact
Address………………………Rue Saint Maur, 15 4000 Liège Belgium
Phone……………………………………………………………………+32 476 43 94 42
Email…………………………………………………………..mabille.luc@skynet.be
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