Lionel Treboit

Born in Paris in 1966, Lionel Tréboit is a French postwar and contemporary artist. His work was featured in an exhibition at Art Jingle Contemporary. Tréboit is a painter living and working in Paris, who presents a poetic vision of transcended reality. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Carron studio in 1985 and graduated in 1989. Currently, he exhibits in France and the United States. 

Since the ‘90s, Tréboit’s paintings explore the urban landscape as a recurring subject, directly reflecting our daily experiences. He favors the subjects of cafés, subway exits, bus stations and museum spaces to reveal other realities. His approach is to transcend the urban reality and to update the poetics of the city. For this reason, Tréboit wants the spectator's gaze to interact with the painted image, so that, depending on the play of light, the image seems to sometimes emerge or to sometimes dissolve. Indeed, his paintings play with the first impression of an image that appears obvious, then deceptively obvious. Such images constitute a transition between reality and a world behind the painting, a supra-reality, a reality above or beyond reality. Conceived from photography and drawing, his paintings reflect a symbiosis between reality and imagination. In his practice, Tréboit first makes photographs, modifies light, recomposes them after cuts and then draws inspiration from them to finally make more subjective drawings. His urban landscapes are bearers of powerful humanity that contradicts the isolation of the human figure, which inevitably leads us to question ourselves and our future. Tréboit is at the crossroads of urban coincidences as he suggests new realities through architectural spaces, use of light, human figures and street furniture. Time seems to temporarily slow down in his paintings, inviting us to decelerate and see beyond reality.

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