Artist Herve Loilier (French artist)

Artist Herve Loilier 

Born in 1948, Loilier studied painting at the National School of Decorative Arts, but especially with the painters Pierre Jérôme and Lucien Fontanarosa. Since 1977 he regularly displays numerous personal and group exhibitions. He exhibits permanently in the Mickaël Marciano galleries in Paris, Marseille and La Baule, Laetitia in Brie-Comte-Robert, Saint-Martin in Brive, Arcachon and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Galerie 23 in Pen Lan, Terre de Contraste in Dinard, Vieceli in Cannes and Saint-Tropez. Bibliography: The Artists of the Year 2000 (Fus Art, 1999), Bénézit, LOILIER (Léopard d'Or, 2000), LOILIER, entre Orient et Occident (Léopard d'Or, Paris 2008), many articles in Univers des Arts including LOILIER, collection "Artist portrait" special issue, March 2010 .Beyond a naturalistic figuration, Loilier endeavors to seek the emotion of a presence in a synthetic style where color, line and pictorial material express themselves strongly, in a balance to be constantly recreated. He uses an apparently spontaneous, lyrical and gestural language, inherited from the research of 20th century abstraction. He puts this language at the service of a personal representation where the human figure, especially female, naked or dressed, takes center stage. Whether landscapes or women, the same impression strikes the viewer, an enigmatic side, a mysterious strangeness, leaving the viewer the pleasure of dreaming. It is with this talent that Hervé Loilier amazes and moves us.