Leo Caillard
Artist Léo Caillard toys with our relationship with time, our understanding of materials and the experience of viewing itself
BIO
Leo Caillard was born in Paris, France in 1985. He belongs to this new generation of artists associated with the significant changes that have been taking place since the 2000s with the dawn of the digital age and the new concerns of societies.
A proponent of new technologies and science, his interests lay in exploring time and quantum physics, eventually leaving the world of numbers and expressing his investigations through a career in art. Graduating from École des Gobelins in 2008, he continued studying the history of art and practiced photography while carrying out research in the realm of 3D and new media.
In the 2010s he began to produce his first works to gain recognition in the art world, an initial series of images, ‘Art Game’ raising the question of digital’s place among classical art in museums. His series ‘Hipsters in Stone’ followed rapidly bringing great visibility from 2012 onwards. Through the gesture of dressing statuary in the Louvre, that may perhaps at first seem merely humorous, Leo Caillard raises the question of our social codes and our own representation as individuals.
Hipster Farnese, 2018
Bronze and marble base
Caillard's “Hipsters in Stone” series, revisits some of the most classical figures of the Louvre’s extensive sculpture collection.
"At the beginning, to dress the statues up, I used to work with a technique called photo manipulation. I used to shot models, who had similar body types, with the clothes on and in the exact same angle than the statues in the museum and with the exact same light direction as well in order to be able to match the images together perfectly. But now that I am working on “real” statues more and more. I prefer to dress them by directly sewing the pieces of clothing on the marble with a very special handmade technique in order to have a real dressed up statue."
“Recently there has been a radical return to the past, a sort of ‘neo-Renaissance’ where artists, intellectuals of all persuasions, seek to draw upon classical cultures to regain strong roots with a new way of thinking, contrary to a linear temporal approach on account of the fact that science and technology cause us to rethink history as a circular, interconnected, almost metaphysical totality.”
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Antique quantique, Galerie Bayart
Leo Caillard | Hipsters In Stone, Zemack Contemporary Art
2018
Hipsters in Stones, MTArt Agency
Art Elysee, Sebastien Adrien Gallery
Public Exhibition - Saint Quentin - France
MACM - Musee d'art Antique de Mougins - France
London King's College Public Installation - " Classical Now "
2017
National Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Gallery Adrien/Kavachnina, Solo Show, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Inti-Punku, Strouk Gallery
Rhapsody of Colour, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
Luminous Bodies, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
2021
New Age Of Classics, Galerie Montmartre
2018
Christies Education - Event presentation - MTart
Dublin Castletown " On a Pedestal " Exhibition
Art San Francisco & Art Busan South Korea - Nil Gallery, Paris, France
2016
FIAC Grand Palais - Ateliers de moulage des musées Nationaux
ART FAIRS
2022
HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) at Art Miami 2022, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) at Contemporary Istanbul 2022, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
Galerie 208 at Bordeaux + Art + Design 2022, Galerie 20
Zemack Contemporary Art at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2022, Zemack Contemporary Art
HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2022, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
2021
Zemack Contemporary Art at Art Miami 2021, Zemack Contemporary Art
Zemack Contemporary Art at Art Central 2021, Zemack Contemporary Art
2020
Zemack Contemporary Art at Art Miami 2020, Zemack Contemporary Art
Zemack Contemporary Art at Art Central 2020, Zemack Contemporary Art