About
Lancelot Blondeel is a contemporary painter born in 1988. Trained as an engineer, he currently works in Fontenay-sous-Bois, near Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
2026 | Ephemeral workshop (to come, September) | Vincennes, France
| A. Notaries (forthcoming, July) | Paris, France
| The Real and its Double – Inauguration of the third place Dédale | Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
2024/2025 | Verneuil Immobilier | Paris, France
2023 | Aux Tables | Paris, France
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2026 | Strassen Contemporary Art Biennial - 13e edition (forthcoming, June) | Strassen, Luxembourg
| Les rencontres contemporaines de Beaune | Beaune, France
| Inauguration of the third place Dédale - Collective exhibition of residents | Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
2025 | Résonances du Présent – Muisca Gallery | Marais, Paris, France
| Hôtel de Ville de Vincennes | Vincennes, France
| Ephemeral workshop in the framework of Entrez c’est ouvert, Halle Roublot | Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
| La Fonderie | Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
| Sévrienne des Arts | Sèvres, France
2024 | Hôtel de Ville de Vincennes | Vincennes, France
| Expressions contemporaines – Private exhibition organised by the Galerie 12 | Paris, France
| Entre-deux ; regard de collectionneur – Galerie 12, rue des Beaux Arts | Paris, France
2023 | Salon des Artistes du Val-de-Marne - 137e edition – Villa Medici | Saint Maur, France
| Francis Barlier Gallery | Paris, France
2022 | True Form – Virtual Artists | London, United Kingdom
Residencies / Studios
2025/2026 | Dédale | Third place animated by Plateau Urbain, Val-de-Fontenay – Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
2024/2025 | Le Préàvie, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, France
Education
2023/2024 | Introduction to Art History – École du Louvre | Paris, France
2021 | Contemporary Art Trends, Jonathan Anderson Lectures (online) | California, USA
2007/08 | ECE Paris, School of Engineering | Paris, France
Collections
Public acquisition: Artothèque Paris Est Marne & Bois
Private acquisitions: United States, France, Luxembourg, Italy
Artistic approach
Lancelot Blondeel deploys a gestural approach, conceiving painting in relation to movement. Through the body, the painter forms a memory of gesture, leaving on the surface imprints and furrows. These singular traces are revealed through the combination of complementary materials: transparent matter, paper, or cotton canvas.
Granting an important role to the circulation of light through his works, the artist questions the way reality presents itself, exploring the mechanics of the senses and perception. He draws the viewer into a reflexive position questioning our modes of presence in the world..
Technique & Process__
Lancelot Blondeel uses paper, wood or cotton cloth. It also uses materials letting the light pass such as plexiglass, transparent canvas or silk paper. The artist paints acrylic from the primary colors and reshapes his hues using pigments or other shades. Its technique is characterised by the use ofHandmade tools : mainly raclettes, with the particularity of working Flat on rigid support.
Laddition and withdrawal of matter do integral part the pictorial practice of the artist; it amplifies, concentrates or refines the thicknesses of paint in certain precise points of the canvas guided as much by the Look by the touch. This tactile sensitivity during the realization is inseparable from the final visual result.
Stylistic Work___
In his research abstraction, Lancelot Blondeel studies the gesture and geometry. The gesture approach is thought in its relation to movement : « on the canvas comes to persist a memory of gesture, ». Thus the body of the artist is consciously placed so as to imprint a dynamic on the subjectile.
The compositions are organized around curved lines and asymmetrical shapes, wherenegative space Play one active role : counterweight, breathing are the readability condition forms. The artist favours monochrome or bichrome palettes marked contrasts, the chromatic reduction focus attention on material, the depth and light.
Vision___
Lancelot Blondeel starts from a strong observation: we never go directly to the real. The cognitive sciences confirm it: any perception is a construction, filtered and distorted by the sensory and mental apparatus of the person who perceives. What we call « see » is already a subjective shaping of the world. It is precisely this gap – between what is – and what is perceived, that his works seek make it intelligible. By playing on transparency and reflection, the artist creates situations where the perception itself becomes unstable The viewer's gaze changes what he sees. The work does not represent doubt, she product.