Alexis Lippstreu - La Pommeraie, Belgium

With limited materials - pencil, paper - Alexis Lippstreu creates fantastic copies of the paintings of the masters. Gauguin’s, Manet’s or Velasquez’s scenes are reinterpreted, reinvented within infinite series. Each drawing is a variation on the main theme, endless, always taking over and adding more to the craft. Whether a reworking or a new page of the history of art, Alexis Lippstreu’s work cuts to the bone with great restraint and art consumed by starkness, revealing the heart of the most famous paintings.

The wonderful engravings on display here show this same creative device.

s.t., crayons graphite et de couleurs, entre 1994 et 2012