LÉO FOURDRINIER

Léo Fourdrinier, born in 1992, lives and works in Toulon. After training at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Nîmes and studying literature, he graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg in 2017. His work has recently been exhibited in France and Europe at the 16th Biennale d’art contemporain (Lyon, FR), the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (FR), the Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris, FR), Un Été Au Havre (FR), Arts Éphémères (Marseille, FR), HATCH (Paris, FR), and more.
At the crossroads of history and form, Léo Fourdrinier’s sculptures and installations are like syncretisms. Amalgamating references from horizons as diverse as ancient statuary, motorbike mechanics, pop culture, decorative art, archaeology and, more broadly, science, his work is based on an acute sense of composition. Power and sensibility, structure and beauty, the living and the artificial, love and geometry,  the dualities at play in his work invariably give rise to new narratives. Léo Fourdrinier was a finalist in the 9th Bourse Révélations Émerige (2022), won the Prix de la collection Marval at Art-o-rama, Marseille (2023), and has worked in various residency programmes such as Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers, FR), Fugitif (Leipzig, DE), 40mcube/GENERATOR (Rennes, FR), and others.
His work plays with anachronisms, offering a contemporary reading of mythologies, a hybrid vision that is surreal and intimate. He also works as a curator and is an associate artist at the cultural space Le Port Des Créateurs in Toulon. Léo Fourdrinier’s work is represented by the gallery Les filles du calvaire (Paris, FR).

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