Ludwig von 90

Sรฉrie – Extrait de l’exposition Framework ร  la galerie Pictura, Cesson-Sรฉvignรฉ, 2025


Cette composition trouve ses racines dans un graff rรฉalisรฉ en 2023 dans un garage abandonnรฉ en Vendรฉe โ€” un lieu que jโ€™avais dรฉjร  marquรฉ, 35 ans plus tรดt, dโ€™un hommage peint sur sa faรงade en mรฉmoire dโ€™un ami disparu, Ludwig.

En 2023, jโ€™ai investi une piรจce close de ce mรชme bรขtiment, recouverte dโ€™une vieille tapisserie dรฉfraรฎchie, pour y crรฉer une nouvelle ล“uvre ร  partir de fonds de peinture et de bombes aรฉrosol. Frappรฉ par lโ€™รฉquilibre de cette composition รฉphรฉmรจre, jโ€™en ai extrait lโ€™esprit visuel โ€” sans en reprendre les lettres ni les motifs โ€” pour en proposer une rรฉinterprรฉtation abstraite.

Ludwig Von 90 est ainsi une superposition de temps : un dialogue entre le geste originel de 1988, la crรฉation spontanรฉe de 2023, et cette ultime transcription en atelier. Lโ€™ล“uvre finalise ce cycle en capturant lโ€™รฉnergie de ces strates mรฉmorielles.



This composition has its roots in graffiti created in 2023 in an abandoned garage in Vendรฉe โ€” a place I had already marked 35 years earlier with a painted tribute on its faรงade in memory of a departed friend, Ludwig.
In 2023, I took over a closed room in the same building, covered with old, faded wallpaper, to create a new work using paint and spray cans. Struck by the balance of this ephemeral composition, I extracted its visual spirit โ€” without repeating the letters or motifs โ€” to offer an abstract reinterpretation.
Ludwig Von 90 is a superimposition of time: a dialogue between the original gesture of 1988, the spontaneous creation of 2023, and this final transcription in the studio. The work completes this cycle by capturing the energy of these layers of memory.


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Impregnated by the practice of graffiti, which he began in 1990 in Rennes, Brez develops a painting that seems to use codes from cubism, constructivism or futurism. However, his graphic language is more certainly the heritage of the research of a letter style, a quest intimately related to the world of graffiti writing. Between abstraction and figuration, his In Situ paintings are inspired by the panorama while playing with the surface of the chosen places. The workshop work feeds on the forms inherited from graffiti and adapts to the limited frame of the canvas. He feeds again the painting in the public space in a permanent coming and going.