After working with cotton canvas, paper, and wood, Lancelot Blondeel explores a new painting surface: transparent canvas. This material choice, both technical and conceptual, opens a field of experimentation where light enriches the dimensions traditionally explored in painting. While opaque supports, especially in darker tones, tend to close the surface, the transparent canvas allows light to circulate, to pass through, reflect, and diffuse, revealing its many behaviors. Combined with acrylic paint and its translucent qualities, it produces vibrant, luminous effects. The ultramarine pigment, the keystone of the series, is thus revealed in all its depth and intensity. A tension also emerges between the carefully composed structure of each work and the spontaneity of the gesture. Impasto, projections, and brush thickness are studied and controlled, yet the gesture itself—an almost instantaneous physical act—remains instinctive, becoming a unique form of bodily language for the artist. ___ Canvas size : 80x60x2 cm Framed painting : 84x64x4 cm

Lancelot Blondeel

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Lancelot Blondeel is a contemporary painter born in 1988. Trained as an engineer, he now works in Fontenay-sous-Bois, near Paris. The artist develops a gestural approach, creating paintings conceived in relation to movement. Through his practice, he builds a memory of gesture, leaving imprints and furrows on the surface. These singular traces are revealed through the combination of complementary materials: transparent matter, paper, and cotton canvas. Giving particular importance to the circulation of light through his works, the artist questions the way reality presents itself, exploring the mechanics of the senses and perception. From the trace of the body: 'a memory of gesture' to a reflection on the nature of the real, he engages in a reflexive stance that questions our modes of presence in the world.