Lucas Compagnoni

Lucas Compagnoni currently works in Marseille. He began his studies at the Pavillon Bosio in Monaco before moving on to the Beaux-arts d’Aix-en-Provence where he obtained his DNSEP in 2023.

The artist is fascinated by human environments and behaviors, of which he strives to be an attentive observer. He pays particular attention to color and the tension that can arise between figurative and negative space, opening up spaces for projection. Reserve, lack and emptiness are all ways of drawing shapes and highlighting them through absence.

By reappropriating the format of domestic portraits, he places faces on the social bangs known as “invisibilized”. Fatigue and isolation are situations that Lucas Compagnoni aims to bring out of an intimacy that confronts the viewer. Accompanying his images with texts, he inserts literary or theoretical quotations about work and the words of workers. “When work is well done, you don’t see it. Like silence. Silence often coincides with the failure of recognition.” Le Blanc de Meudon, is a reflection of his committed words in which he shows the repetitive gestures of a surface technician cleaning windows.

As part of the ESAAix Terrains research studio, the artist had the opportunity to exhibit his work at the Musée Granet in 2023. In 2024, the artist was in residence at the Villa Antonine in Béziers, during which he studied the villa’s gardens and exhibited his work there in May on the occasion of his residency graduation. Since October 2024, the artist has been team coordinator at “Ateliers du Jas” in Aix-en-Provence, an experimental art center in Ehpad initiated by Mohammed El Khatib’s Zirlib company. He was also part of the Curriculum-Chromé program, which culminated in a group exhibition at Ateliers Jeanne Barret in Marseille. This year, he is taking part in the “Rouvrir le monde” residency in Roure, supported and accompanied by the Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans Sartoux.