This abstract artwork features a striking black and white color scheme, with a repeating pattern of undulating waves creating a sense of rhythmic movement across the canvas. The minimalist composition emphasizes the fluid, organic shapes and the interplay of positive and negative space. The artist's use of simple, gestural brushstrokes gives the piece a raw, expressive quality, evoking the power and unpredictability of the sea. This work exemplifies the artist's distinct minimalist style and their exploration of the relationship between form, line, and the natural world. ...
Loïc Raguénès is a painter whose works are representations of rhythmic patterns, atmosphere, sensation and weather. Raguénès often incorporates simple, graphic undulating lines that seem like soundwaves, imbuing each painting with a particular resonance, as well as depicting the visible waves of the ocean. In this sense, the artist’s work can be considered at once figurative and abstract, straddling the boundary that separates the two polarities. The visuality of Raguénès’ paintings – misty, hazy, liminal – as well as their vast scale, gives them an immersive, dreamlike quality. They wash over their viewer, subtly soaking into the skin. Another trademark of the artist’s work are his ‘neo-pointillist’ works, the result of Raguénès digitally manipulating photographs before rendering them with paint.
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C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
