Presentation of the installation The Real and its Double at the inauguration of the artist's workshop – Third Place Dédale, Fontenay-sous-Bois – 2026
« Nothing more fragile than the human ability to admit reality, to accept without reservations the imperious prerogative of reality »
Clement Rosset
Thus begins the work The real and its double of the philosopher Clement Rosset.
Lancelot Blondeel is directly inspired by the title of the essay and proposes for the installation presented here a reading on two levels. The first key to reading is technical realization of works ; the artist seeking a direct connection with the spectator by addressing themes like the motion or light straight line of the work of the series Luminotype. The second level of reading relates to the relationship between human and real. The proposed works question the double and illusion mechanics as developed in the work of the philosopher.
Luminotype I (detail of installation) The Real and its Double) – 2025 – acrylic, canvas, paper – 80×60 cm – © Adagp
Movement & Light___
After painting on cotton, paper or wood, Lancelot Blondeel studies a new medium to paint by choosing the transparent canvas. This material choice, both technical and conceptual, opens up a field of experimentation where light, an integral part of the work, enriches the dimensions traditionally treated in paint.
The transparent canvas allows light rays to circulate; they pass through areas of colour, reflect, and diffuse. This application makes it visible the many behaviors of light and brings a dynamic All. The association of this medium with acrylic paint, whose translucency properties are exploited, generates vibrations of great presence. Ultramarine blue pigment, the keystone of the series, is thus revealed in all its strength and character.
A certain tension emerges within the composition, while the gesture that unfolds across the works is marked by spontaneity, the overall balance remains deliberate, considered, and thought through. Thus wheelbases, projections, dialogue with the background, choice of colors are studied and controlled. On the other hand, signual work, an almost instantaneous physical emanation, arises from an unconscious bodily and unconscious. This repeated gesture, perfected over the years, becomes a form of form of bodily language specific to the artist.
Luminotype IX – 2026 – acrylic, canvas, paper – 80×60 cm – © Adagp
Relationship to the real & mechanical of the double___
The question of our ratio to real is one of the recurring reasons for Lancelot Blondeel's practice. Through the exploration of sense, perception, representation, the artist questions how reality presents itself and how our experience of the outside world is built.
The use of plexiglass cylinders in front of canvases simulates opposition between perceived reality (seems) and Ontological reality (which is). Thus the mechanics of the double form.
The artist thus questions the possibility of direct access to the real Are we in a position to seize him as he is or are we condemned to perceive only partial or even altered representation? His work explores this persistent tension between deep reality and subjective construction.