David Lefebvre (born 1968), La cité aux mille statues

Oil / canvas, 80 x 100 cm, framed: 88 x 108 cm

Attached is a Certificate of the Artist and Yasnikovsky Art Gallery.
For the winner of the auction, additionally an Art Calendar for 2025 (A2 format) with Jaroslaw Jaśnikowski's paintings "Spaces of Surrealism" and a special edition of the 57-page French Magazine "Art Mag" dedicated to the 2023 exhibition "In the World of Magical Realism" at the Copper Museum in Legnica, in Polish language version.

About the painting:
Oil painting presented at 2 exhibitions in Poland:
- Legnica Copper Museum
- Municipal House of Culture in Luban

The painting will be available in Poland only until February 15, 2025, so this is the last opportunity to purchase it.

Subjective description of the painting:
The city depicted by Lefebvre is said to be no ordinary city. Because there are the statues themselves. There is no normal life there. Someone has turned these people into monuments. Why does an artist make such a static picture where nothing happens? And have you thought about the fact that maybe soon ordinary cities will be like this, that it will be normal? Aren't we slowly striving to become such statues? Eyes on the phone, confined to the house, staring at various equipment that gives entertainment, human relationships disappearing, conversations more often made with fingers than lips and vocal cords... Isn't this the process that will eventually turn us into statues. We won't have to move, talk, react, feel... A frightening vision of the cities of the future according to Lefebvr....

About the Artist:
He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (DNSEP) in 1992. He graduated from the Lyon II Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1994 (DEUG, license, Maîtrise, DEA). Created illustration works for Ravensburger, Gallimard Jeunesse, Bayard Presse and Infogrames. Teacher of drawing and painting in private establishments and associations.

Painting is a raison d'etre, a reason to live and comprehend the universe on a scale discernible to the human eye. His painting is situated on the borderline of archeology and architecture, exploring the anomalous territory of Impossible Figures. Often appearing in his compositions, they symbolize the deceptive reality of the world from a mathematical (geometric perspective), physical (quantum) or religious point of view.