Ludovic Thiriez’s paintings tell a story in a similar way to a fairytale where the spectator can imagine a new plot. The Prologue series suggests going back to your childhood using memories and imagination.

Thiriez’s pictures explore a strange and fantastic world. He amalgamates some European and tropical plants, few animals from the forest, Hungarian symbols and some abstract gestures.  In the same way as the ivy on the wall, all these motifs grow organically on the canvas creating a balanced composition. The desolate background depicts an obscure and intriguing ambiance with neutral and austere colours contrasting with the agitated and vibrant world on the foreground.
Currently in residence in São Paulo, Thiriez adds more Brazilian flora in his paintings. He alternates between figurative elements and more graphic and geometric designs working in sequence between a meticulous and slapdash technique.

In parallel of theses ambiance’s works, Thiriez paints portraits of young children from the past. The naive kids’ faces look deep at your soul wondering about their life. They have hopes or fears about their future. Thiriez incorporates again Hungarian motifs to emphasize the passage to the adult age. The embroideries symbolize the bridge between stages of life where knowledge and culture are passed on to the next generation.

Thiriez creates a patchwork form his life experiences and influences. Born in France, he lived many years in Budapest where he got the inspiration from the Hungarian textile patterns. This is an old woman selling her own embroideries on a Budapest market who told Thiriez the story behind the different shapes and colours. According to her, Hungarian women created specific embroideries long time ago passed it through the generation adding their own experience. They were looking at the Nature and copied forms from   trees, flowers and other vegetal life. Hungarian embroiders created cloths with their own meaning and a specific code for their family depending on the region where they lived. That story shortly resumed here had a great impact on Thiriez who recurrently applies those motifs in his work and continues his researches.

Thiriez’s work (Prologue) shows a duality between old and new, traditional and contemporary, obscure and colourful. Born in a generation where the technology has appeared in a sudden and has changed the society erasing slowly a conventional model of life, Thiriez looks at the folklore and the wildlife to get the wisdom to question the conventional values in the present-day. He recreates his own model starting from what he knows from the past and what he gained from the present creating a transition between generations.

- Antoinette Godin

Training

* 2007: Fine art School of Budapest, Painting program

* 2002-2007: ESSCA, Ecole Superieure des sciences commerciales d’Angers

* 1992-2002: Private Schools for drawing and paintings.

Group exhibitions

*2023, charles diehl, Avignon, France

*2023 ArtUp, Lille, France

*2023 ArtVerona, Verona, Italy

*2022 collective art shortlist, Paris, France

*2022 ArtVerona, Verona, Italy

*2022 Gare 82, Brescia, Italy

*2021 ArtVerona, Verona, Italy

*2021 ArtMarket, Budapest, Hungary

*2021 Waldhaus contemporary, Flims, Switzerland

*2021 Galleria Ipercubo at Federico Luger, Milan, Italy

*2020 ArtVerona, Verona, Italy

*2019 Art fair, Art Mucc, München, special Guest, Germany

*2019 Art Fair, Art Verona, with Gare 82 Gallery, Italy

*2019 Art fair, Art market Budapest, with Brody house collection, Hungary

*2019 « Bizarre » currated by Bojar Ivan Andras, Loft b111, Budapest, Hungary

*2018 Luxembourg art prize, pinacothèque of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

*2018 Art Fair, Art Market Budapest, with Brody house collection, Hungary

*2017 Mixed realities, Bernheimer contemporary, Berlin, curated by Isabel bernheimer

*2017 « White wall », J+ gallery, New york

*2016 Karlsruhe art Fair, Germany, with Bernheimer contemporary

*2016 « when did we stop playing 2? » With Berneihmer contemporary at Kremers Gallery, Berlin

*2016 « When did we stop playing ? » Bernheimer contemporary and Anna Laudel, curated by Isabel Bernheimer, Istanbul

*2016 Miami, collector’s dinner

*2016 Art fair,  Art Market Budapest

*2016 Dream Hunters, Latarka galeria, Budapest

* 2016 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York

* 2015 Art Fair, Art Market Budapest

* 2013/2014 : Residency and exhibition at the Art club Tofiq House in Sao Paulo

* 2013 : Group talks and exhibitions at Ateliê Hermes, directed by Nino Cais and Carla Chaim, Sao Paulo

* 2012/2013: Foire Européenne d’art contemporain, Strasbourg, St –Art galerie Boyrié

* 2012 : Lisabird am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna, curated by Lisa Kandelhofer

* 2012 : Lisabirds beach Gallery, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria curated by Lisa kandlhofer

* 2011: Permanent exhibition at Brody House

* 2010-11: Vienna, Art collective, Lisabird

* 2011: Art Market Budapest with the curratrice Anna Grundberg

* 2008: Exhibition :Salon off de la photographie contemporaine, ateliers Richelieu Paris

* 2008 : Brody Sandor Open Studio

* 2008 : M[ei]DE Tüzraktér

* 2007 : Fine art school of Budapest; selected for a temporary exhibition.

* 2007 : Brody Sandor Open Studio (Alexander Tinei, Etienne De Fleurieu, Bullet Shih)

Personal exhibitions

*2023, Galerie deux6, Paris, France

*2022 Galerie Sechzig, Feldkirch, Austria

*2021: Felix Hoeller, « My fairy nature », Vienna, Austria

*2020: Gare 82, « Onirique », Brescia, Italy

* 2018: Playground, Bernheimer contemporary, Berlin, Germany

* 2015: Brody Art Yard, “portrait project” with Rogerio Mesquita

* 2014: Centro Cultural Octo Marques, « Prologuo », Goiania Brazil

* 2012: Héviz Museum

* 2010: Budapest, French institute June-September 2010/ Retrospective of 2 years in Budapest

* 2009: Brody House (permanent exhibition)

* 2008 (10 May): Gödör. Event exhibition: „Euromed”.

* 2008: Paris Show room galery Griesmar Tamer.

Prizes in Art contests and other

* 2003: Salon de printemps de la peinture d’Hagondange, Prix jeune.

* 2008: exhibition Drouot Montaigne, Paris and creation of a quotation

* 2008: Catalogue Millon et Associés edition 2009.

* 2014: FFW MAG Brazil

*2018: Laureate at the luxembourg art Prize , jury : Anne-Claudie Coric managing director of Templon gallery, Olivier Donat director of the Museums of Paris, Isabelle de Maison Rouge curator and art historian, Olivier duvivier curator of the Pissarro and Tavet-Delavour Museum, adriano Picinati di Torcello Director of the Art & Finance Department, Deloitte Consulting

Private collection

France, UK, US, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, Turkey, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Australia

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