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Leo Gabin

Installation view, Independent Brussels, 2016 

"In this age of the excessive use of images, for us it’s now more relevant than ever to use found footage and recycled imagery. Especially with an abundance of amateurish made “private” imagery put readily available online, the idea of authorship becomes even more questionable. But raising this question can be seen as the essence of the work."

-Leo Gabin, Modern Matter, June 2013

Now well known on the contemporary art scene, the Leo Gabin collective is interested in the thousands of images that form our visual and virtual, common and quotidian landscape. Internet represents a window onto the world where images of all kinds circulate and cohabit, providing a mass of information that must be deciphered. By appropriating these visions, the collective creates new works that capture this incessant movement on canvas, in silkscreen prints, videos and installations. Today, when everybody is an author and is helping enrich this virtual universe, the works of art elaborated by the trio attain a new dimension. 

In them, techniques and materials combine yet always leave the original image, the creative source, visible. Leo Gabin is particularly interested in American culture, so important in the three artists’ young years. It stages the stereotypes, excesses and paradoxes to which it can give rise. 

https://contemporary-art.mirabaud.com/en/artists/detail/leo-gabin

Further on Grand Ave, 2016,

Lacquer and acrylic on aluminum,

75 5/8 x 53 1/8 inches (192 x 135 cm)

At It Again, 2014 Lacquer, spray paint, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas 205 x 150 cm (80.71 x 59.06 in)

Past Projects

Hello! I just wanted to share some past projects I did in school that I never got around to posting! I will also show the original sketches if I still have them!

Project 1: Miles

Class: Plate Lithography

For the first project I drew my OC Miles! She is actually a pretty old OC that I had for a long time. In this project, I redesigned her to what she looks like today! I remember being so satisfied with her redesign because I put a lot of thought into it. I didn’t like her previous design because it was very bland and generic. Unfortunately, I don’t have any images of her original design because I only drew her once on a flipnote on my brother’s DSi and the file became corrupted and deleted itself (along with all the other flipnotes I made on it).

Overall, I’m still really happy with how this project turned out! 🥰

Sketch

Aluminum plate

Final Print