Laurent Le Deunff

Laurent Le Deunff was born in 1977, in Talence (France) and lives and works in Bordeaux. A walnut shell made of oak (the size of a football) a femur made of alabaster or a mattress decorated with gold leaf, Le Deunff's sculptures deceive the eye through the distance between the materials he uses and the subject represented. Rudimentary materials such as paper-maché and fingernails alternate with noble bronze and natural wood. His textured virtuoso drawings (done in series) reveal the sculptural power of animal sexuality. In this, the artist is reactivating a form of archetypal primitiveness. Tents, fires, trophies, totems and charms remind us of the early primitive side of civilization.

His work was exhibited at the Mauvaise Réputation gallery in Bordeaux (2016), at the FRAC Île-de-France (2015) at the Semiose Gallery in Paris in 2013 and 2015, the Normandy FRAC in 2012 and at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Libourne in 2011. It can be found in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the CAPC-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux as well as in various FRACs and Artothèques across France.