Time Symphony · Oil on canvas, 105 × 200 cm · Sold
Cursed Riviera n°3, 2023 · Oil on canvas, 130 × 162 cm
The Wall N7, 2024 · Oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm
Fatalité, 2021 · Oil on canvas, 200 × 200 cm
In the making
From the first blue stroke to the signature.
Watch it full size— Léo Pansard
Works
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Each canvas is drawn at its real size, hung 1.50 m from the floor, next to a 1.75 m figure. Drag the wall to walk along the hang.
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Installations & performances
Fourteen proposals for art centres, institutions and curators. The images are project visuals; full proposals are sent on request.
The artist
Born in Armenia in 1990, Léo Charles-Édouard Pansard is a painter and visual artist. He lives and works between Nice and Monaco.
“Each canvas is a silent poem, weaving memories in layered colours.”
He grew up in Armenia, in a family with Armenian and Greek roots on his mother's side, Austro-Hungarian and Russian on his father's. Drawn to colour, form and texture from his teens, he entered the National Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan at 17 to study art history and applied arts. At the Vazgenian Seminary he discovered abstraction, a revelation that has shaped all his painting since. Yet he sees himself as largely self-taught: school was a trigger rather than a framework.
At twenty, after two solo shows in Yerevan, he moved to France. The South, its light, its beaches and its Mediterranean villages became the material of his canvases, along with the encounters and emotions he lives there. His first exhibition in Monaco, in December 2022, was a turning point; in 2024 the City of Nice presented Riviera at the Lou Babazouk municipal gallery.
His painting starts from the three primaries, red, blue and yellow: the basis of every other colour and, for him, the most direct form of emotion. He paints in oil on canvas or linen, with brush, float and knife, sometimes adding gilding or charred fabric. His canvases hold the memory of places and of human encounters.
Alongside painting, he designs room-scale installations and performances, often participatory: childhood with Solitude, discrimination with Le Mur de Lamentation and Les Traces, exile with La Terre des Frontières and Déracinés, hunger with 8 250 000 000, the artist's place with La Mort d'un Artiste. Several grow out of his own story.
“My aim is not to provoke for its own sake, but to create a direct, almost intimate confrontation between the work and the viewer.”
PaintingOrazio Gentileschi, El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Gernot Kissel, Fernand Léger, Claude Viallat
Installation and performanceAi Weiwei, Adrian Piper, Orlan, Mona Hatoum, Richard Long
Milestones
Training, exhibitions, series and collaborations.
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To acquire a work, receive the catalogue or a project proposal, or visit the studio in Nice and Monaco by appointment.
pansard.leo@gmail.com