Wim Legrand

Wim Legrand

温·勒格朗

Wim Legrand, born in 1978 in Antwerp, Belgium, is a painter and master printmaker now based in Cape Town. After earning his degree in Visual Arts in 2000, he went on to refine his printmaking skills at an esteemed international center for graphic arts. His career has since evolved in both painting and printmaking, blending traditional fine art techniques with modern influences. Legrand’s practice is marked by an eclectic merging of painting, drawing, and pop culture references, creating a distinctive style that draws on both his North European roots and contemporary themes.

温·勒格朗,1978年出生于比利时安特卫普,现居开普敦,是一位画家和版画师。2000年获得视觉艺术学位后,他在国际知名的版画艺术中心进一步磨练了自己的版画技艺。他的职业生涯在绘画和版画领域均有显著发展,结合了传统的美术技巧与现代文化影响。勒格朗的艺术实践融汇了绘画、素描和流行文化元素,形成了一种独特的风格,既根植于他的北欧背景,又融入了当代主题。

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Legrand has exhibited widely, with numerous solo shows in Belgium and South Africa, and his work has been featured in prominent group exhibitions worldwide, including a recent show in Shanghai. Some of his most notable solo exhibitions include "While You Were Sleeping" (2023) in Amsterdam, "Hoot Hoot" (2022) in Gent, and multiple exhibitions at 99Loop Gallery in Cape Town, such as "Blue Moon" (2022) and "The Parafix" (2020). He has also received recognition for his artistic contributions, winning the Joris Olyslager Prize in Flanders in 2007, and his work continues to garner attention internationally.

勒格朗的作品在全球范围内展出,包括比利时和南非的多次个展,以及在上海等地的重要群展。他知名的个展包括2023年在阿姆斯特丹Enari画廊的《While You Were Sleeping》,2022年在根特Kamer 108的《Hoot Hoot》,以及在开普敦99Loop画廊的多场个展,如2022年的《Blue Moon》和2020年的《The Parafix》。他还因其艺术贡献获得了多项荣誉,最著名的是2007年获得的弗兰德的乔里斯·奥利斯拉格奖(Joris Olyslager Prize),他的作品在国际上持续受到关注。

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Legrand’s artistic approach reflects an interplay between traditional and contemporary aesthetics. His work often invokes the formal rigor of Flemish still life painting, blending it with surrealist and postmodern elements to create narratives that feel simultaneously familiar and dreamlike. In his paintings, mundane objects and figures take on symbolic roles, inhabiting a liminal space where the past and present, the real and the imagined, converge. By layering historical art references with contemporary motifs, Legrand comments on the strangeness of modern life, offering a playful yet poignant critique of the flood of media and information that shapes our understanding of the world.

勒格朗德的艺术风格体现了传统与现代美学的互动。他的作品经常唤起佛兰芒静物画的形式美感,并融合了超现实主义和后现代元素,创造出一种既熟悉又梦幻的叙事感。在他的画作中,日常物品和人物往往承担着象征性角色,置身于过去与现在、现实与幻想交汇的边界空间。通过将历史艺术元素与当代符号相叠加,勒格朗德对现代生活的怪异性进行了评论,玩味地反映了媒体和信息的泛滥如何影响我们对世界的认知。

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