
Marc Desgrandchamps, Observatrice / Observer, 2022, oil on canvas / huile sur toile, 56 x 46 cm, © Marc Desgrandchamps, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co
Marc Desgrandchamps
Born in 1960, lives and works in Lyon, France.
A major painter on the French art scene, Marc Desgrandchamps plays with notions of opacity, transparency and superimposition. Although his painting is figurative, perspective is often distorted, space undefined and anomalies emerge: fragmented bodies, ghostly objects. His works, drawing their references from many worlds (art history, photography, cinema, literature, music, as well as personal photos), test the limits of figuration. In his own words, he cultivates "a painting of doubt, doubt of the figure, doubt of presence, doubt of painting itself". This doubt is expressed through transparency, which is also a way of speaking of time and passage. Another recurring motif in his work is the female figure, particularly bathers, which occupies a central place. There are strong constants in his paintings, such as certain sites or the omnipresence of the blue sky.
His work is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co. and Eigen+art leipzig/berlin.