On the work

Sketches of organic villages, with a heterogeneous, technical and expressive style.

Ludovic Duprez is a French artist who lives and works in Portugal. He grew up on the Normandy coast, at the edge of shoreline and bocage, and developed early on a relationship to the living world that escapes romantic contemplation and becomes matter for thought. Trained in Industrial Design, Applied Mechanics and then Fine Arts, he acquired a double grammar — that of the engineer and that of the painter — which he never stops making converse. Two nomadic decades between London, New York, Paris and Berlin followed, moving through construction trades and visual arts without ever settling, accumulating through practice a heterogeneous formal vocabulary that would infuse all of his later work.