During the Contemporary Art Festival
Survival Kit # 3 in Riga we had the chance to invite
Léo Quievreux from France to make a solo exhibition. We had featured a comics by him in Š! #4 and he made the cover of kuš! #7 and already a long time we wanted to make an exhibition with him. Finally it worked out.
As this year the festival was looking into the future with exhibitions of 50 international and Latvian artists, also Léo showed his futuristic vision entitled "Future Is Now".
The exhibition consisted of black and white drawings from Léo's book La Prothèse HRZ (released by Le Dernier Cri), newer color drawings, excerpts from mini kuš! and a HUGE wall painting, which Léo made during the exhibition.
So here you see the artist at work...
...and here you see visitors looking at the artist working...
....some of them took pictures...
... others interviewed him for the television show SEMS...
... others just observed...
... but Léo didn't get distracted and just focused on his painting....
... with lots of details...
... even Death couldn't stop him...
... to finish the huge wall painting during the White Night.
Especially for the exhibition Léo also made a mini kuš!
And in the exhibition there was also a second wall painting, which was inspired by Janis Rozentals painting "The Serpent".
Well, it was a very amazing exhibition and we were very happy to have Léo in Riga...
... to show our gratitude we even brought him to a Paris fashion store at the Central Market. Other impressions Léo had of Latvia, you can see on his tumblr.
We have very colorful memories of this week and would like to thank the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art for making it possible and the Institut français de Lettonie for supporting this event! MERCI BEAUCOUP!
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