Less is More Projects — Artistes

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Phil Ashcroft Painting, graphic design... Combining influences from abstract expressionism, British landscape painting, Japanese woodcuts, and graphic street art, Ashcroft integrates varied visual styles to generate a crossover between space, object and environment.	Yann Bagot Drawing, lithography / engraving... En atelier, je m’intéresse à la représentation de ce qui échappe à l’homme : l’exploration des abysses, l’aventure spatiale et la quête alchimique sont des sujets qui animent mes recherches plastiques. Guidé par les cosmogonies du savant Robert Fludd, les encres et les récits de Victor Hugo, je produis des séries inspirées par la recherche scientifique.	Peter De Meyer Installation, mixed media Peter De Meyer (1981) has enchanted me. He has a gentle, persistent way of being. He is also a handsome man. We were sitting in a little office floating above a gigantic hangar where a theatre company sometimes builds sets and which De Meyer uses to assemble his sculptures. There was no heating, and the cold was barely tempered by a buzzing fan heater.
Adam Dix Painting, screen-printing The accompanying images that are presented to you here are from an ongoing body of work which sets out to investigate the associations between technology and our need and fascination with it. I have concentrated on the arena of telecommunications looking at its impact on society.	Paolo Giardi Mixed media, painting... Paolo Giardi works across a variety of disciplines producing art that explores the tecnique of the montage. This has led to a fascination with, and exploration of, the languages of citation, allusion and adaptation. Through the exercise of association, he simultaneously attemps to manipulate existing images out of their original context.	Mari Minato Drawing, installation « Légèreté est du reste l’un des mots qui s’imposent : légèreté de Mari Minato, qui dépose des gouttes de couleur à l’aquarelle et de fins dessins à l’encre sur les murs, sur le papier ou dans des coquilles d’huîtres et laisse à l’œil le plaisir de compléter et de recomposer ces signes à peine allusifs. »
Guillaume Paris Installation, mixed media... Over the last fifteen years Guillaume Paris has evolved a diverse practice that focuses, from an anthropological standpoint, on the use and abuse of meaning and identity in contemporary culture. The work examines the powerful ideological forces that shape modern society, especially their more curious elements.	Han Ren Mixed media, painting... Trois miroirs réfléchissent singulièrement la lumière. Ces cadres emplis de graphite contrastant avec la virginité du papier à l’extérieur de leurs contours, dessinent les dignes moulures de miroirs baroques. Ce minimalisme chromatique nous évoquant sans détour le patriarche Malévitch, est en rupture avec la valeur ornementale de ces œuvres.	Jocelyn Villemont Installation, mixed media... Qu’il s’agisse du rock’n’roll, du tuning, des pratiques sportives, folk ou autochtones, le vocabulaire formel qu’emploie Jocelyn Villemont provient d’une conception élargie de la culture et des rapports d’échange qu’elle suscite. L’artiste appartient à une génération qui revisite les imbrications historiques des héritages pop et minimalistes.
Ceal Warnants Mixed media, drawing... Warnants’ prints, and the books from which they come, are a response to childhood, as it seems to exist today. One reminisces about childhood as a Blyton-esque story: romanticised and idyllic. Quickly one glosses over the angst and growing pains. Today’s children are not allowed such innocence.