Biography | Artwork

 

Lou Ros, began painting at the age of 17. He started doing graffiti for fun with friends on the walls of buildings. But this game soon became a real addiction to him. Subsequently, the fast and spontaneous simple tag that he performed gave way to more sophisticated and substantial works like murals. Learning to paint on the job without going through art schools, Lou soon feels the limits of this street art, admitting himself that "there is an ethics of aesthetic beauty and repetition that eventually bores me. Painting beautiful is boring, while making a painting that has strength is quite another thing. So I started painting at home. " Back home, he enriches his reasoning and his practice of painting by privileging an attitude of truth and a more fundamental quest to his painting, "The living and vibrant line instead of nice clean straight line."

With his drawings of dancers, his mother being a choreographer, Lou was able to exercise his talent in delivering a message and lyrical poetry of great subtlety. On this occasion, he developed an aesthetic wealth by restoring the strength and attitudes of expressive dance. The light, thin, stealthy and evocative lines allow him to describe the figures and shapes of the dancers. Movements of steps and changing positions are reconstructed with an edifying accuracy. One can have the impression of watching a live choreography. The gesture is often beautiful and elegant, and a certain gracefulness appears in these works though in draft form. Besides, the unfinished nature of the sketch gives the opportunity for our imagination to continue the magic of dance. Further on in his choreography paintings, the appearance of the incomplete form takes another dimension, like the peculiar art of this painter who defies categorization. His paintings are representations of the visible world and his own inner world. With his magic paintbrush, colors fly, dance and rejoice with pleasure and passion marrying all developments and contortions of the dancer. In this pictorial choreography, there is an explosive, radiant and vibrant dramatization of colors.

 

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2012 FACES II / Corpus, Solo exhibition at Marianne Nems Gallery - NEW YORK
2012 Mini solo exhibition at 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace - GOLD COAST
2011 PAPER FACES / FACES, With ARTISLA Gallery at the Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Center in the Gallery of Light - DUBAI
2011 FACES / PAPER FACES, Solo exhibition at TACHE GALLERY - CHELSEA NEW YORK
2011 SELFPORTRAIT, EXHIBITION at 100 Vauxhall Walk London SE11 5EL. Nearest Tube: Vauxhall. - LONDON
2010 AUTOPORTRAITS + FACES, Avec LGALERIE, La Charpente, 1 rue de l'amiral Courbet à Saint Mandé - PARIS
2010 AUTOPORTRAITS, Impressions d'arts à - Sautron

 

2011 CORPS / DECORS, Collectiv exhibition with YOUTH'S TALKING at Cathédrale du Sacré Coeur - CASABLANCA
2011 Portrait on paper, Arthamptons art fair with Marianne Nems Gallery, Sayre Park, 154 Snake Hollow Rd, Bridgehampton- NEW YORK
2011 FACES / ADOPTE / CORPUS, Collectiv exhibition at West Bank London Gallery, 133 - 137 Westbourne Grove - LONDON
2011 With Marianne Nems Gallery NYC, "B.I.G.S. Art FAIR" Beirut Graffiti Street Art Fair - BEIRUT
2011 FACES/CORPUS/FACES II, Exhibition with Nushka at Galerie Pierre Kleinmann, Espace Saint Germain, 7 rue Guenegaud 75006 - PARIS
2011 FACES, Collectiv exhibition at Rook and Raven Gallery - LONDON
2011 FACES, AAF with TACHE GALLERY - NEW YORK
2011 FACES II, Collectiv exhibition with 322 project - BRATISLAVA
2011 PORTRAIT of John HAMON / DESSIN, Musée des arts et métiers - PARIS
2011 FACES II, Collectiv exhibition with mimesis at 64 Tyers Street London - LONDON
2011 SELFPORTRAIT/PAPER FACES with SAATCHI GALLERY, Digital collectiv exhibition at Art Paris at Le Grand Palais - PARIS
2011 FACES, Expo Art Fair, BELGIQUE. Gallery MAD ART - TIELT
2011 Collectiv exhibition with RUE STICK . AIR / Rouge Anglais, MUSEE AAV 16 bis place garibaldi - NICE
2010 Dessin CORPS&GRAPHIQUEMENT, Gallery "Etre et connaitre" - LA ROCHELLE
2010 Réalisation de toile at MARSEILLE, VENTE AUX ENCHERES - MARSEILLE
2010 Dans le cadre de Imaginez Maintenant, FRESQUE about "apocalypse saint jean" for "HOUSE OF THE LIVING-DEAD" - BORDEAUX
2010 at PARIS 13e Galerie Christian Moreaux Monteil, Affordable Art Fair Paris 2010, Halle Freyssinet - PARIS
2010 CORPS&GRAPHIQUEMENT, Théâtre de COLOMBES - PARIS
2009 CORPS&GRAPHIQUEMENT, Maison des mouettes - LA ROCHELLE
2009 CORPS&GRAPHIQUEMENT, Atelier des Arts derniers - NANTES
2008 Tripping Barcelona, Art Generation - PARIS
2008 Tripping Barcelona, Atelier des Arts derniers - NANTES

 

2010 100 Artists of the Male Figure - E. Gibbons
2009 Motion ‘Schön! Magazine - Volume #2’
2008 Cover ‘Le Monde 2’

 

I live and work in Paris. I'm a 27 year old painter and I come from the graffiti. The relationship between the fixed image and movement really interests me. To captivate the eye by transforming the clear into a blur and the fixed into a movement is an active ingredient in my research. I paint in a very instinctive way, following the example of the expressionists who fascinate me. Through the colours, brush strokes, composition, background and rhythm of the painting, I attempt to create works which truly represent bodies in movement without distortion. Without having a clear idea of the final result, I stop my work before it seems finished. The moment where little is enough to suggest the structure interests me, leaving the spectator's imagination open at the moment the scene is starting to appear. Knowing when to stop before saying too much is what I tried to do.