Woodcity QUINTESSENCE

Drawn from his WOODCITY series, Laurent Minguet’s QUINTESSENCE exhibition presents an exploration of three of his beloved megacities—New York, Paris, and Tokyo—revealed as hyperrealistic urban landscapes, painted on fine timber of wood and underlined with colored drips and geometrics incursions.

“QUINTESSENCE” leads us to the very essence of the artist’s creative intent: the cohesion and unity between the four fundamental elements of any artistic creation: Subject, Gesture, Support, and Material.

Laurent Minguet paints on fine timber, walnut, cherrywood, or oak species, or even on marble, carefully selected for their random veining. His drawing lines, precise and essential, meticulously traces and reconstructs architectural and urban details in a photographic rigor. The painting reproduces the contrasts of a natural light in acrylic washes that integrate into the very material of the substrate, allowing us to enter deep into his hyperrealism.

The strength of his compositions is underlined by the pictorial material, raw, deposited, thrown, dripping or geometric. This graphic trace destabilizes our perception and finally guides us towards a materialist realism that reveal the fundamental of what is made of a pictorial work, the material and the color.

The subject itself - the city, its life, its icons - is then revealed in a continuity of transparency between the colored materials and the veins of the substrate to transport us into an immersion that is both geographical, conceptual and aesthetic.

Laurent MINGUET - Wood City QUINTESSENCE
Presented and curated by Ikono Art

May 26th to June 4th

Gallery Concept 21
107-0061 Tokyo, Minato-ku, Kita Aoyama 3-15-16
Opening hours : 11:00 to 19:00

May 26 (Tuesday)             11:00                        Starting exhibition
                                                17:00 to 19:00      Private PREVIEW NIGHT with CCI France

May 27 (Wenesday)        17:30 to 19:30      Public OPENING PARTY

May 30 (Saturday)          14:00 to 16:00       WORKSHOP with Laurent MINGUET  
                                               17:00                      TALKSHOW with Laurent MINGUET

May 31 (Sunday)              11:00 to 13:00       WORKSHOP with Laurent MINGUET

June 4 (Thursday)             14:00 to 16:00      WORKSHOP with Laurent MINGUET
                                               17:30 to 19:30      CLOSING EVENT Jazz & Blues concert
                                                                              with Harumo Imai & Alberto Garcia