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Art programme - january/february 2011

Located in the heart of the "Montartre butte", the Artlepic studio celebrates its 35 years. But the career of the place master, Henri Landier, is developing yet for a long time...

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Le Point - january, 6, 2011

Henri Landier
Rebel painter

Depuis 35 ans, au 1, rue Tourlaque, au pied de la Butte, dans un vaste atelier-galerie de 600 mètres carrés, Henri Landier peint et grave. Mais ses premières huiles, ses premiers dessins, il les a faits bien plus tôt, à 17 ans, en 1954, dans un atelier de la rue Saint-Vincent prêté par le peintre montmartrois Jean d'Esparbès. En quelques 6.000 tableaux et 2.000 gravures, l'artiste a construit une oeuvre en dehors des modes, qui reflète souvent une vision tragique de la vie. Pourtant, le noir et blanc des débuts a fait place aujourd'hui à des couleurs éclatantes. Ce bourlingueur puise son inspiration dans les rues de Paris, qu'il a parcourues infatigablement, sur les quais de Seine, en Provence, à Prague, à Venise... For thirty five years at Toulaque street, number 1, at foot of the "butte Montmartre" in a vast 600 square meter workshop-gallery, Henri Landier paints and engraves. But his first paintings, his first drawings, he did them much earlier, at 17 years, in 1954, in a workshop-studio of Saint-Vincent street lent by the painter of Montmartre, Jean d'Esparbès. With some 6.000 paintings and 2.000 engravings, the artist has built a work out of mode, which often reflects a tragic vision of life. Nevertheless, the black and white of the first years gave birth to sensational colours to-day. This "old salt" draws his inspiration from the streets of Paris, he has tireless wandered through, on the Seine quays, in Provence, in Prag, in Venice...

Requiring. Henri Landier engraves his work in the ancient way on his own press

Le théâtre, la nuit, la mer les portraits... ses thèmes son inépuisables. Peintre rebelle (il a rompu depuis 35 ans avec le "diktat des galeristes" ), artiste exigeant qui grave à l'ancienne sur sa propre presse, Henri Landier parle avec nostalgie du Montmartre d'avant les barbouilleurs de la place du Tertre, celui de Renoir, qui avait son atelier à deux pas, rue Caulaincourt, de Bonnard, qui était aux Fusains, de Mac Orlan et Marcel Aymé, qu'il a bien connus. Il expose dans le monde entier mais surtout dans l'Atelier d'art Lepic, où viennent des collectionneurs comme des comités d'entreprise, et où les enfants de l'école voisine s'appliquent à faire des copies de ses oeuvres. On peut y découvrir ou y revoir, pour les 35 ans de l'atelier, une rétrospective consacrée à ses gravures (du jeudi au samedi, de 14h à 19h ou sur rendez-vous).

 

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2010 EXHIBITION "FACE to FACE"

Journal Expos - september/november 2010
Le mois du 18e -october 2010
Montmartre à la une
Arts Magazine
Art Absolument
Art et Métiers du Livres
Le Mois du 18e
Univers des Arts
Actualités à Paris
Beaux Arts Magazine
A nous Paris
Pariscope

Journal EXPOS - september/november 2010 - Paris 18e

Le mois du 18e - october - Exhibitions

Voilà 35 ans qu'Henri Landier peint et grave dans le vaste atelier qu'il a repris rue Tourlaque - et qui était auparavant un garage. Il célèbre l'anniversaire par une exposition qui durera jusqu'au 24 décembre. On y retrouvera quelques-uns des autoportraits qu'il avait montrés au printemps, notamment cet ironique autoportrait en clown (ci-contre),

et des oeuvres des diverse étapes depuis sa jeunesse montmartroise, ses années de marin, sa maturité... Huiles, aquarelles, lithos, eaux-fortes, dont beaucoup d'oeuvres de petit format - et de prix modestes.

 

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Montmartre à la une - n° 26 - 1st quarter 2010

Face to Face

Landier in front of his ego, it is 20 canvas and 4 working months which lead to an intro-exhibition, where the artist shows himself as much to him as to the spectator. This series of self-portraits is really fascinating, through the clearly introspective glance that the painter puts on him and on his work. The immortal motto of Socrate engraved on the fronton of Apollon's temple in Delphes,"Gnôthiseauton", is perfectly illustrated, here, in the workshop of Henri Landier, at Montmartre.
Go and see this exhibition in which this outstanding artist, outside the modes, puts himself nude without falling in a sort of exploitation of his image, is a must. Detachment, humour underlying a line always strong, astonishing variety of the palette and the plans are making of each of his canvas a work, and the whole is also a work.
And then, after almost 50 years of painting, and through his route, there is in him an extraordinary youthfulness of line and heart. That's like a painting lesson, which many scrawlers ought to go and see, to wash their eyes...

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Arts Magazine - may 2010

Face to face from Henri Landier

This exhibition presents 55 recent paintings: self-portraits, portraits of women, children, actors and clowns sometimes realistic, humoristic, hallucinated. They translate the humours, the moods of the artist. In this abundant face to face, Henri Landier makes us relive his route: from the teenager alone in Montmartre in 1952, to the committed sailor, from the innocence of the Pierrot to the homage to Flemish masters with the Self-portrait with the turban.

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Art absolument - may/june 2010

Painter and engraver, Henri Landier was born in 1935 and lives in Montmartre. His work is constitued by 4.000 paintings, 2.000 engravings and prints approaching themes very varied as the night, the harbours, the city, the landscapes, the theater, the face, the men... Nevertheless, very fast, the eye discovers the uniquity of a vision, the coherence and the continuity of an approach which remains accessible to whoever is open to the emotion created by the real. But it is the self-portrait that he is approaching in the workstudio Lepic exhibition. Trough this series, the artist reveals us his personality and his "hand", difficult and restless, so realistic as expressionist.

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Arts et métiers du livre n° 278

This exhibition gathers works realized by the painter-engraver on himsef. Let us not make a mistake, this is not narcissism...
Henri Landier looks at the deepest of himself...
The power of these portraits, carried by an abundance of colours invites us to go through his world...
Henri Landier, gentleman in squared shirt, remains, as underlines it Daniel Pirotta " ... more than ever an artist taking hold with his time because he also knows, as all the great painters, to question the past, the present, and have a dialogue with his famous predecessors in his own language".

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Le mois du 18e

Henri Landier exposes himself, Face to face.
He exhibits about thirty self-portraits, painted in 2009, in a frame-time of only 2 months and a half. These paintings very coloured with reds, oranges, blues, greens, yellows, showing the planes of his face are answering themselves, beginning an internal dialogue ...
The same sizes, the same centrings (face and bust) but different atmospheres showing a sad, distracted, calmed, smiling Landier, decided, in cap of sailor, in Provençal hat, brushes in the hand or even between teeth...
The painter also presents some children's portraits, faces of clowns or unknown persons sketched from life and still lives, that is fifty five canvas on the whole, and quite recent...

 

Univers des Arts

This exhibition is the internal garden of Landier. His internal empire of which he will not speak to you. To speak about it, he paints what is blooming or is weighing in him. "His face resembles more and more to something which is not a face" (Saint Exupéry). Painting his face moulded by colours does not perforce means, resembling...
And this majesty of the silences is giving to-day this harvest of beautiful canvas where Landier forged his body, because the truth makes itself slowly... This 2010 vintage certifies that Landier, far from coteries, is neither academic nor a photographic mechanism. He does not destroy his face, he metamorphoses it... --- (extracts - Guy Vignoht)

 

Actualités à Paris

There are painters where we go round. Somewhere in Montmartre, in a hidden recess of Lepic street, Henri Landier exhibits in his studio since 1975. Son of silversmiths, born in 1935, the artist is to-day a Resistant, outside the art middle, more worried by his production than by his sales. Giving way nothing to the mode effects, the "Face to face" he proposes from May 13 till June 13 th, raises the veil on a personnality "out of norms", and the difficul integrity that an inlassable practical is questionning.

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Beaux Arts Magazine - june 2010

Face to Face
Since 35 years , the Artlepic studio broadcasts the work of Henri Landier. His way out of the official circuits and modes shows always a creation ceaselessly renewed. More than 100 exhibitions are testifying of that, in Europe, in United States, and in Japan. The exhibition "Face to face", 60 recent paintings of which a series of 31 self-portraits realized last summer presents among other things, the teenager alone in Montmartre, the sailor on the globe seas, the Provençal and his black hat, the lunar Pierrot, the homage to the flemish Masters and, above all the furious artist who scrunches his brushes in full teeth, nice metaphor of his animated existence. A noble and humanist vision of painting.