Eric LAPIERRE

Born near Lyon in 1972, Eric Lapierre is a French artist whose creative journey developed outside traditional academic art schools. After training in the graphic arts industry, he began working in a photographic laboratory, where he gained extensive experience in image-making, photo retouching, graphic design and digital painting.

At the intersection of Pop Art, photography and new technologies, Lapierre has developed an immediately recognisable visual language. Often emerging from dark backgrounds, major figures from music, cinema, fashion and popular culture inhabit his compositions. David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and Audrey Hepburn are transformed into contemporary icons through vivid bursts of colour and fluid, dynamic shapes.

The artist notably creates prints on metallic paper mounted on aluminium. Light moves across the surface of each work, intensifying the colours and giving his subjects an almost electric presence. Balancing figuration and abstraction, Lapierre reinvents familiar cultural imagery while exploring ideas of celebrity, memory and collective fascination.

His work was presented in New York as part of The Story of the Creative in 2013, followed by an appearance in Times Square in 2014. His international profile continued to grow in 2015, when his artwork Keith Live appeared on the cover of GQ, confirming the graphic power and distinctly contemporary character of his artistic world.