An engineer turned artist___
Lancelot Blondeel is a contemporary painter born in 1988. Trained as an engineer, he now works in Fontenay-sous-Bois, near Paris.
The artist develops a gestural approach, creating a body of work conceived in relation to movement. Through the body, the painter builds a memory of gesture, leaving imprints and furrows on the support. These singular traces are revealed through the combination of complementary materials: transparent substances, paper, or cotton canvas.
Giving particular importance to the circulation of light through his works, the artist questions the way reality makes itself visible. By exploring the mechanics of the senses and perception, his works engage the viewer in a reflective position and raise questions about our modes of presence in the world.
Luminotype
2025
Vibrations of striking presence___
The Luminotype series is defined by the use of an uncommon painting support: transparent canvas. This particular support allows light to pass through; rays travel across the colour fields, reflecting and diffusing as they go.
The combination of transparent canvas with acrylic paint - whose translucency properties are fully explored - generates vibrations of a strong material presence.
Ultramarine blue pigment, the cornerstone of the series, is thus revealed in its full intensity and character…
Solar Wind
2024 / 2025
A flux of solar particles___
In Vent Solaire, the artist engages in a twofold work on movement. In the background, traced with a wide brush, the trajectory of particles leaving the heliosphere unfolds.
In the foreground, an organic form of dynamic character emerges - produced in a single mark made within moments.
The artist seeks here to set in tension the human experience of the instant against the apparent impermanence of celestial bodies…
No Reason
2023 / 2025
A spontaneous movement___
In No Reason, Lancelot Blondeel both carves a furrow and builds a relief, concentrating paint at precise points across the canvas.
This technique characterised by curved lines and vivid colours - foregrounds the gestural dimension of the artist's practice.
In doing so, he moves away from the traditional pictorial convention of adding matter alone as the means of constructing a work.
Interlaced Landscapes
2023 / 2024
A new narrative___
For Paysages Entrelacés, Lancelot Blondeel developed a unique creative process unfolding in three main stages.
In the first stage, the artist builds an abstract space composed of textures or gestural work. Each canvas is then cut front to back at random intervals, so that the resulting pattern remains unknown in advance. Finally, each canvas is recomposed using the cut strips, producing a new narrative shaped by the artist…
Abstract Studies
2023
The idea of gravity___
Extending the Clinamen series, this group of abstract studies explores the idea of weight and gravity. Working on wood support provides an opportunity to engage with a new surface, the experimentation lying in testing its response in order to reveal its character…
Clinamen
2022
Atoms falling through the void___
The Greek philosopher Epicurus, developing the idea of Nature as composed of atoms and void, introduced the concept of Clinamen - from the Greek, meaning declination. He defined it as a random deviation of atoms falling through the void.
Through successive collisions, this original declination would give rise to the world as we know it…