Louis Granet

Biography

Louis Granet is a Parisian illustrator and artist whose artistic practice is rooted in the links between comic strip and painting. After graduating from the Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg in 2014, he moved to Paris to begin his career as a professional artist.

Initially a comic strip creator, Granet switched to painting to liberate himself from the structural constraints. The artist applies the comics’ techniques and codes to several mediums, he develops and constructs his work by painting pictorial matter outlines with black paint, as to give physicality to its subject. Signs, lines and shapes are the starting point of his aesthetic research. Abstract forms and representational images were presented to the spectators at the same time and that it tends to disorientate the public.

“The construction of my paintings owes a lot to the comic strip. There is the base, the relationship between the images, and therefore a narrative to mention, even if that can be absurd and abstract.”

The iconographic repertoire of the artist, characterized by its diversity, consists of figurative elements photographed in his immediate surroundings, throughout his life’s experiences. For THANK YOU, the artist’s Luxembourg solo show, he was strongly influenced by his stay in California. Food products, trash, child art, street art, human figure or animal, Granet has no favourite subject and paints the everyday world of objects and the relationship between the living being and the space. Recognizable to a certain extent, the diverse forms, materials and perspective superimposed randomly on top of each other. Granet’s work is full of drama, suspense and, despite its ambiguous nature, tangible narratives.

Louis Granet is Neumann Wolfson Art’s first artist-in-residence. He has recently shown at the Biennale de la Jeune création, La Graineterie centre d’art, Houilles; Par amour du jeu, Magasins Généraux avec Artagon, Pantin and Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Born in 1991 in Bordeaux, France.

Lives and works in Paris.

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Avec le Goût, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, USA

2019 Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg

CARTOON OPTIMIST, Centre d'art contemporain "atelier d'Estienne", Pont-

Scorff, France

Espace de la Société Générale, Puteaux, France
2018 Free, Super fast !!!!, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, USA
2015 Zombie poisson coupé, Galerie Silicone, Bordeaux, France

Group Exhibitions

2020 In Full Bloom, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore

2018 Le Colin-maillard (La Nuit), duo-show with Segondurante, Pierre Poumet

Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France

North East South West, What’s Up London, curated by Lawrence Van Hagen,

LVH Art, London, UK

A Terrible Beauty, duo show with Micheal Bevilacqua, Neumann Wolfson Art,

New York, USA

Par amour du jeu, curated by Anna Labouze & Keimis Henni, Magasins Généraux, Paris, France

Summer show, with Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil, Franck Miltgen and

Brian Rochefort, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg

Chorus, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
PotPourri, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, USA

2017     La Saga, Double-V, Marseille, France
            Private Choice, Private Choice, Paris, France
            We are the ones, Carlsberg Byens Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
             Printers Matters 2, MAD 3, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
             Color Block, Triple V, Paris, France
             Pink Flamingo, Agent M, Paris, France
             Casse et vole!, MR 14, Paris, France
             BD Factory, Frac Aquitaine, France
             Printers Matters 1, Paris, France
2016 All I can for Christmas, Galerie des multiples
              Les noces de Cana, Double Séjour, Paris, France
           Hommages et pastiches, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
             Lancement Point Contemporain n°2, X-po Studio, Paris, France
             Autofictions, Under construction gallery, Paris, France
             Projet 100%, Galerie des multiples, ART-O-RAMA, Marseille, France
              Summer group show, galerie JC, Paris, France
            Heroes, Galerie GP & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
            Jeune Création – 66e edition, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France