Ludovic Thiriez

Biografia
Ludovic Thiriez è un artista francese che vive e lavora a Budapest, Ungheria.
È principalmente pittore ma, spesso, ai dipinti associa installazioni e oggetti. La sua principale ricerca degli ultimi anni si sviluppa attorno alla tematica dell'infanzia: esplora questo periodo della vita, i suoi contrasti, le emozioni, le transizioni e le passioni che riflettono la nostra condizione di esseri umani.
La sua pittura è come un accumulo di esperienze, immagini e idee; una mescolanza che l'artista organizza in modo semplice e caotico. Descrivendo il suo lavoro, gli piace parlare di collages, sovrapposizioni di elementi che raccontano storie che oscillano tra realtà, fiaba e surrealismo. Sulla tela, la composizione si costruisce sul contrasto delle pennellate astratte con l'elemento figurativo. 
La vita appare come un ossimoro, una contraddizione romantica che crea un fragile equilibrio. 
La natura e le piante sono presenze costanti ma è dopo il suo viaggio in Brasile che l'utilizzo dell'elemento naturale viene ulteriormente enfatizzato nei suoi dipinti. In una sorta di magia, alberi e piante trovano la loro strada per un perfetto equilibrio visivo.
I ricami ungheresi sono un'impronta della sua storia ma anche un potente simbolo della trasmissione di cultura e conoscenza tra generazioni. Ogni regione dell'Ungheria aveva i suoi codici e disegni che stavano migliorando e passando da una generazione all'altra. Questi disegni sono stati esposti su pezzi di tessuto; lo usa come un ponte tra generazioni che si erode nel tempo.
Gli animali sono usati in quasi tutte le fiabe. Sono gli amici dei nostri piccoli e le loro storie immaginarie. Hanno anche una presenza simbolica molto forte di guida in molte culture.

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Ludovic is a French artist living in Budapest, Hungary. 
He works mainly with paintings but he started associating paintings with installation and objects. The main thematic of his work for the past years has been around childhood. He explores this life period, its contrasts, emotions, transitions and passions, that reflect our conditions of human beings.
His painting is like an accumulation of experiences, images and ideas; a mixture that he organizes in a simple chaotic way. When describing his work, he likes to talk about collage, superimposition of elements that tell stories that fluctuate between reality, fairytales and surrealism; on the canvas abstract brush strokes mix with figuration coming to build up these compositions.
Life appears as an oxymoron, a romantic contradiction creating a fragile balance.
The nature and plants are a natural force; the discovery of Brazil and its forest emphasized the use of plants in his work. In a kind of magic, trees and plants find their way of perfect visual balance. Ludovic likes to see his paintings growing in this organic way and borrows some pieces of Mother Nature for his creations.
Hungarian embroideries are an imprint of his own story, but also a powerful symbolic of culture and knowledge transmission between generations. Each region of Hungary had its own codes and drawings which were improving and passing from one generation to another. These drawings were exhibited on pieces of fabric; he uses it as a bridge between generations that erodes with time.
Animals are used in almost all fairy tales. They are the friends of our little ones and their imaginary stories.
They also have a very strong symbolic presence of guidance in many cultures.

PREMI / AWARDS:
2018
primo premio Luxembourg Art Prize
2014 FFW MAG Brazil
2008 Catalogue Millon et Associés edition 2009
2008 exhibition Drouot Montaigne, Paris and creation of a quotation
2003 Salon de printemps de la peinture d’Hagondange, Prix jeune

OPERE IN COLLEZIONI PRIVATE / WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
France, UK, US, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, Turky, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Italy. 

Mostre personali

2023 "Lost Paradise", a cura di Alessandra Redaelli, Gare82, Brescia, Italy
2022 "Siamo sempre stati qui - Adelisa Selimbasic - Ludovic Thiriez", bi-personale, Gare82, Brescia, Italy 
2021 Felix Hoeller, "My fairy nature", Vienna, Austria
2020 "Onirique" Gare 82, Brescia, Italy
2018 "Playground", Bernheimer contemporary, Berlino, Germania
2015 Brody Art Yard, “portrait project” con Rogerio Mesquita
2014 Centro Cultural Octo Marques, «Prologuo», Goiania Brasile
2012 Héviz Museum
2010 Budapest, French institute June-September 2010/ Retrospective of 2 years in Budapest
2009 Brody House (esposizione permanente)
2008 Gödör. Event exhibition: "Euromed"
2008 Paris Show room gallery Griesmar Tamer

Mostre collettive

2021 ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
2021 ArtMarket, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Waldhaus contemporary, Flims, Switzerland
2021 Galleria Ipercubo at Federico Luger, Milan, Italy
2020 Art fair, ArtVeronaDigital, Verona, Italy
2019 Art fair, Art Mucc, München, special Guest, Germany
2019 Art Fair, Art Verona, with Gare 82 Gallery, Italy
2019 Art fair, Art market Budapest, with Brody house collection, Hungary
2019 « Bizarre » curated by Bojar Ivan Andras, Loft b111, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Luxembourg art prize, pinacothèque of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2018 Art Fair, Art Market Budapest, with Brody house collection, Hungary
2017 Mixed realities, Bernheimer contemporary, Berlin, curated by Isabel bernheimer
2017 « White wall », J+ gallery, New york
2016 Karlsruhe art Fair, Germany, with Bernheimer contemporary
2016 « when did we stop playing 2? » With Berneihmer contemporary at Kremers Gallery, Berlin
2016 « When did we stop playing ? » Bernheimer contemporary and Anna Laudel, curated by Isabel Bernheimer, Istanbul
2016 Miami, collector’s dinner
2016 Art fair,  Art Market Budapest
2016 Dream Hunters, Latarka galeria, Budapest
2016 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York
2015 Art Fair, Art Market Budapest
2013/2014 Residency and exhibition at the Art club Tofiq House in Sao Paulo
2013 Group talks and exhibitions at Ateliê Hermes, directed by Nino Cais and Carla Chaim, Sao Paulo
2012/2013 Foire Européenne d’art contemporain, Strasbourg, St –Art galerie Boyrié
2012 Lisabird am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna, curated by Lisa Kandelhofer
2012 Lisabirds beach Gallery, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria curated by Lisa kandlhofer
2011 Permanent exhibition at Brody House
2010-11 Vienna, Art collective, Lisabird
2011 Art Market Budapest with the curratrice Anna Grundberg
2008 Exhibition :Salon off de la photographie contemporaine, ateliers Richelieu Paris
2008 Brody Sandor Open Studio
2008 M[ei]DE Tüzraktér
2007 Fine art school of Budapest; selected for a temporary exhibition.
2007 Brody Sandor Open Studio (Alexander Tinei, Etienne De Fleurieu, Bullet Shih)