Laurent Dupont

Property of the European Parliament, 2020

38.5 x 52.5 x 51.5 cm

Acrylic on cardboard

Unique, with certificate

Laurent Dupont's painting is at the intersection between a conceptual exploration of both the medium itself and its limitations and a process of care, in the understanding and spirit of restoration. His painterly practice is concerned with meticulously filling in what has begun to fade and thus, through painstaking work, restoring value to what seems fit only to be discarded, as in his Cardboard Box Paintings, a series of works in which he has repainted with extreme precision the slogans, typography and symbols on cardboard boxes. In other cases, as in his still life of found objects covered layer by layer with colour, the representation of the object draws ever closer to the object itself until they finally become inseparably one. These works possess both a great honesty and seriousness as well as something playful: the found objects - at once a series of monochromes and a group of sculptures reminiscent of chocolate statuettes. Laurent Dupont (born 1976, Liège, Belgium) has participated in solo and two-person exhibitions at Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2019); Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2016) and Wiels - Contemporary Art Centre (2010). He has also participated in group exhibitions at Braunsfelder Sammlung, Cologne (2020); Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels (2018); Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2017) and CAC, Vilnius (2015). Dupont lives and works in Brussels.