organic geometry

laurent martin “Lo”

www.laurent-lo.com mercedesdurban@aficionarte.com

laurent martin “Lo” bamboo sculpture

“Lo” Born in France in 1955, Lo studied design and worked as an art director in fashion and advertising. In 2000 he discovered the fascinating world of bamboo, falling in love with the material, its versatility and texture.

In 2004, he left his former life behind in order to take on his personal “Bamboo Road”, travelling to remote areas in India, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to live with people who use this natural resource as their principal building material.

This exciting trip showed Lo that not only is bamboo a sustainable alternative medium applicable to architecture, industry and many other areas such as medicine and health, but also a means for creating art and communicating feelings.

A tireless researcher of the different uses of bamboo Lo is currently about to travel to the Amazonian jungle in South America to enrich his palette as well as his knowledge of bamboo.

Lo’s creative process arises from the technical sensory and spiritual values of bamboo. He explores its lightness, balance and flexibility, as well as the mathematics peculiar to bamboo, retaining its poetry, sensuality and nobility.

Suspended in space, others on a subtle point of support, they speak of harmony. They invite us to establish a dialogue with ourselves and the outside world through spirit and matter, in search of inner balance.

Lights and shadows, movement and stillness, sound and silence, resistance and flexibility, full and empty, femininity and masculinity ... opposite concepts, but nevertheless complementary.

From the contradiction of fullness and void, existence and non-existence, the artist constructs his seductive sculptural mobiles, drawing out of the air threads, weights and counterweights like a musical score, enabling this medium’s elegant, airy and organic calligraphy to dance before us.

the bamboo road

Aided by BWO (Bamboo World Organization) I am preparing the second chapter of my "Bamboo Road" through Mexico and Brazil, to Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Colombia.

The structure and gender diversity of bamboo has been used to work on small and large scale. In Central America the traditional use of bamboo’s hardy character, such as Guadua bamboo, has lead architects and engineers to use this material as a sustainable alternative in construction, combining its properties with contemporary techniques.

Along the way I am planning to meet members of the international bamboo community currently investigating this field. My goal is to learn and to interpret their findings and apply them to my sculptural work, and develop new projects in the field of architecture and modeling space.

recent works

Bailarina I

280 x ø80 cm

Bailarina II 100 x ø50 cm

dreamdomme 250 x ø200 cm

mèche de vent 50 x ø70 cm

borrasca

70 x ø70 cm

bourrasque 250 x ø80 cm

evasion

280 x 310 x 125 cm

luna llena

70 x Ă˜65 cm

espace du dedans 95 x 80 x 70 cm

3 triangles 43 x ø20 cm

1 triangle 27 x 13 x 13 cm

colimaçon

100 x ø56 cm

bermude 170 x ø 140 cm

tabúbamboo 65 x ø18 cm

l´âme du vent 250 x 140 x 106 cm

organic geometry 1

110 x ø80 cm

organic geometry 12

110 x ø110 cm

organic geometry 7

80 x ø140 cm

organic geometry 8

140 x ø150 cm

organic geometry 13

75 x ø42 cm

inside 1 37 xø 37 cm

Inside 5

43 x ø37 cm

birds tree

20 x 27 x12 cm

wind tree

134 x 70 x 45 cm.

flying phoenix 160 x ø80 cm

phoenix I

186 x 67 x 31 cm

phoenix 2

186 x 60 x 23 cm

blowing in the wind

120 x 33 x 12 cm

vague à l´âme 176 x 30 x 15 cm

medusa

80 x ø32 cm

cleaning space

80 x ø70 cm

enlace 1

19 x 16 x 17 cm

enlace 4

23 x ø30 cm

tabĂşbamboo 4 80 x 40 x 42 cm

barco 300 x ø350 cm

un ange passe 150 x ø430 cm

2011 “organic geometry” Galería Aina Nowack (Madrid) “alma del viento” Tramuntan’art Port de la Selva.

2010 ”bamboo mind” Galería HCH- La Haya (Holanda) “galaxy” Galería Impar - Sao paulo (Brasíl) ”inside bamboo” Galería Àmbit (Barcelona) ”bamboo dreams” Galería km7 (Girona) ”alphabeto del viento” Galería Pilar Riberaygua (Andorra) ”bamboo spirit” Espai K (San Feliu de Guixols) ”sueño con mujer y barco” Ruta de l’Art. (Castelló d’Empúries)

2009 ”finalistas al premi d’escultures” Fundació Vila Casas (Palafrugell) “forma y color” Galería N2 (Barcelona) “la ruta del art” (Castelló d’Empuries) “natura morta” Galería km7(Girona) 2008 “al fil del vent” Galería km7(Girona) “body bamboo ” Galería Catártica, Torino (Italia) 2007 “bamboo wind” Galería N3 (Madrid) “bamboo space” Galería N2 (Barcelona) Galería km7 (Girona) Galería Juan Planellas, Tosa de Mar (Girona)

2006 “bamboo grove” Galería km7 (Girona) “grandes formatos” Galería de Lassaletta, (Barcelona)

2005 “bamboo art work” Galería km7 (Girona) “pequeños formatos” Galería de Lassaletta (Barcelona) 2004 ”body bamboo” Galería Catártica, Torino, (Italia)

Fotos: María Alzamora y Lo

laurent martin “Lo”

www.laurent-lo.com mercedesdurban@aficionarte.com Alvaro Picardo alvaropicardo@hotmail.com Ph: +44.7968123638

laurent martin “Lo” bamboo sculpture