Born in Barcelona in 1938, he works and lives in Paris. L J-B is a complete artist. Some know him for the Catalan abstract art, the others for the work from various materials as the sand, the earth, tissues, ropes, the others finally for the sculptures.
Since 1955, L B-J crosses the world. From Madrid to Paris, by way of Prague, Berlin but also, Geneva, Chicago, London either still New York, its work crosses the foremost spaces of exhibition, such the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona) or the Contemporary Arts Center of Lille.
So, from 4 till 30 June 2010, the Gallery Saint-Cyr has the immense honor to welcome in its walls this artist of international fame. In a bluish world, L J-B invites us in a spiritual quest which leads to the man and to his turpitude. His commitment is quite at once pictorial and ethical as show of it works such as The Crisis I and II, When the faith falls or Envy of equality.
L J-B, hardened observer, transports us by his pictorial work. Of this serene universe made by ropes gets free an approachable writing allowing him to settle a constant dialogue with the spectator transcent by the rigidity of the material.
His work becomes then a material and emotional medium facilitating the meeting in Mr Buber's sense enter the eye of the artist and our.
