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. |
