Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1931 - )

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Laurent Marcel
Salinas is of French nationality and resides in
Paris. After studies in Law at the University of
Aix-en-Provence, he went to Paris and
studied with the French cubist painter and
theoretician Andre Lhote. Since 1958, he has
been involved in important lithographic
activity, including a lithographic interpretation
of 29 imaginery portraits by Picasso for
the publishers "Cerde d'Art" in Paris and
"Abrams" in New York.

His work displays an unusual formal sophistication derived from his studies of
cubism and the ramifications this view has on the artist's eye as it interprets the world. Combined with a stark representational interpretation
of subject matter, this juxtaposition results in work that is at once direct, yet
appears suspended in a stream of many changing images.
The meeting of water and land hold an important place in his experience. The effect of the luminous surface of the water on features of the landscape is executed in a decidedly humanistic way. The shore is not barren or harsh, but is filled with products of life-houses, boats, docks - the work of
people and their lives.

One Man Shows
1976 Paris
77,79 Paris
1973 Copenhagen
1957 New York
1953 Alexandria
1951 Luzern
1950 Paris
1946 Alexandria

Major Exhibitions
Fondation Francois Desnoyer in
Saint-Cyprien
Foundation Paule Mikkelsen Minde in
Denmark

Paintings in several collections in Egypt,
Lebanon, Switzerland, England, France,
Denmark and U.S.A.