Ludovic Thiriez

Ludovic Thiriez

Ludovic is a French artist living in Budapest. He works mainly with paintings and for 2 years he started associating paintings with installation and objects. The main thematic of his work for the past 5 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. These stories are fluctuating 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 which defines our thinking and deciding systems. This same game and system belongs to his process of creation and research.

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.

Antique pictures are often a base for his work. He delocalizes these images and make an interesting timeless proposition.

Thiriez’s pictures explore a strange and fantastic world. He amalgamates some European and tropical plants, few animals from the forest, Hungarian symbols and some abstract gestures.

Thiriez creates a patchwork form his life experiences and influences. Born in France, he lived many years in Budapest where he got the inspiration from the Hungarian textile patterns.

This is an old woman selling her own embroideries on a Budapest market who told Thiriez the story behind the different shapes and colours. According to her, Hungarian women created specific embroideries long time ago passed it through the generation adding their own experience. They were looking at the Nature and copied forms from   trees, flowers and other vegetal life. Hungarian embroiders created cloths with their own meaning and a specific code for their family depending on the region where they lived.

Thiriez’s work (Prologue) shows a duality between old and new, traditional and contemporary, obscure and colourful. Born in a generation where the technology has appeared in a sudden and has changed the society erasing slowly a conventional model of life, Thiriez looks at the folklore and the wildlife to get the wisdom to question the conventional values in the present-day. He recreates his own model starting from what he knows from the past and what he gained from the present creating a transition between generations.

* 2007: Fine art School of Budapest, Painting programm

* 2002-2007: ESSCA, Ecole Superieure des sciences commerciales d’Angers

* 1997-2002: Ecole de dessin Newman, Metz. Private School for drawing and paintings.

born 1984 in France