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Red Woman 9

Oil on canvas

44" x 35"

Red Woman 30

Oil on panel

28" x 24"

Red Woman 21

Oil on canvas

72" x 60"

Red Woman 15

Oil on canvas

52" x 40"

Red Woman 11

Oil on canvas

60" x 36"

Angel Erotica 1

Oil on canvas

32" x 24"

Angel Erotica 7

Oil on panel

24" x 20"

Nude 1

Oil on canvas

12" x 12"

SOLD

Nude 3

Oil on canvas

12" x 16"

Crop 1

Oil on canvas

10" x 10"

Stars and Roses 1

60" x 72"

Sanctuary 1

72" x 96"

Luc Arten

The Red Series..

This series is all red. Images of nudity, one character, two, women. It came after the women series done in 2005. The red put a distance between the viewer and those erotic images, women with their power and their weakness, their faked intimacy with the spectator, the seduction game they play, between submission and aggression, are they victims, are they the prey or the hunter? The prey of a society of men's desires, willingness. It's a testimony and an appeal, the borderlines of erotic, the images are not about art, but desire, then through the painting and the canvas, the become what they were not supposed to be, about beauty and no more sexuality. The monochromatic makes them unrealistic and tough so realist. Erotic images are about power, hidden behind a veil of beauty, but above the desire, remains the use of a human being whom fakes the real love, the one perhaps they don't have for themselves.

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BIO

French native Graduate of the National Art school of Lyon 69 France

Graduate of the National Superior Decorative Art School ENSAD Paris 75 France

Exhibited

Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles CA USA

Gallery Aubry Paris France

Gallery Bartley Drey Gallery London UK

Gallery One Embarcadero Center San Francisco CA USA

Gallery Grey Mc Gear Modern Bergamot Station Santa Monica CA USA

Grants

First prize of the city of Vernon 27 France

First prize of the city of Clermont-Ferrand 63 France

Grand Prix of the Salon des Peintres Militaires France

Prize Jean Aujame Paris 75 France

First prize of the city of Amberieu 01 France

Grant of the prize of portrait Paul Louis Weiller Paris 75 France

Private exhibitions

Paris, London, Trinidad and Tobaggo, Chamalieres France, San Francisco 2005, Los Angeles 2006