Claude-Max Lochu
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French artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Franche-Comté.
For Claude-Max Lochu, the essence of painting is to catch the daily poetry. Claude-max Lochu, a discoverer of hidden secrets, knew how to exhume the magic where ordinarily ones perceive only the distressing rationality. He says: "Flying over the geometry of the cubist relief of the city strikes me and obsesses me pictorially. I discover there a new urban mapping to explore, to invent, to dream." Jean de Bengy wrote about him: " Of his numerous trips, of his exploration of the world, Claude-Max Lochu brought back a vision, one about humanity, not in the sense of humanism but in the one of human reality. " Claude-max Lochu, rear grandson of Peter Pan, got his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon and lives today close to Paris, in France. He works with several galleries in France and abroad.
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1975 - National diploma of painting, École des Beaux-Arts (Art school) at Besançon (Workshop Jean Ricardon).
1976 - First personal expositions in Rabat and Tanger (Morocco).
1979 - Installation in Paris.
1981-1982 Exhibition of Montrouge and festival of provisional art, Le Mans.
1982 - First trip to Japan. Study the Sumi-é (technique using ink originating from China) in Kyoto with the painter Shiko Itoh – Exhibition Big and Young from today.
1985 Return to Japan; first travel painting similar to the poet Bashō who uses travel itself as his source of inspiration. This travel painting is exposed in the museum of Dole.
Beginning of the series of oils on canvas
- Bastille Opera (1985-1987). The series is exposed in the Studio of the Bastille Opera
- Ochre Careers of the Luberon (1988)
- Houses-Memory at Bastille (1990)
- Tropical Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden (1991)
- Initiatory Park of the Desert of Retz (1992)
1993 Houses of the Sky - Beginning of a research on the relief of the city: Paris, Assize, Lisbon, and Amsterdam.
Continuation of the series of oils on canvas
- The Guards (1994)
- The Love seats (1995)
- The Travelers (1996-1997)
1997 First voyage to New York. Work the continuation of the Houses of the Sky and a series of portraits entitled Woman-Computer-and-Co.
1997-1999 Works on still life, interiors and workshops -Returns to New York-Overflight meditation in Luberon.
2000 Exposes at the Faure Museum of Aix-les-Bains. Share his time between his Parisian workshop and long stages in the country of Ventoux where he seeks poetry rather than the representation (Hotel Le Siècle) and starts a study on the topic of water (Sorgue River).
2001 Exposes at the gallery Etienne de Causans (Paris) and to the arts center André Malraux of Le Bourget - first contact with the gallery Laurent Boyrie (Paris). Exposes in Tuscany and works in parallel in the Valley Di Cecina (Volterra). Takes part to the collective exhibition organized by the Museum of Aix-les-Bains in homage to C D. Friedrich.
2002 Exposes at Laurent Boyrie gallery - Continues a work on the landscape of the Beaujolais wine - takes part in the festival of Fillols - continues his work in Tuscany while exposing at Accademia Libera Natura e Cultura de Querceto. Prepares a European tour entitled the Roofs of Europe.
2003 Exposes at the Artima gallery in Paris and the Liberty gallery at Gent in Belgium. Continues the series of the Overflights (Prague, New York and Paris). Develops the Night ones and the continuation of the Heroes in black and white or almost.
2004 Discovers the concept of "Drunk Street Night". Ties up contacts with the Haudrecy gallery in Knokke-zoute, Belgium, and exposes his “Urban Night Overflights” at the Artima gallery in Paris and the “3 Aches” gallery in Lyon. Realizes "Dazzling City" following his stay at San Francisco. Remains in quest of the daily poetry.
2005 Personal exhibitions at the Artima gallery, entitled "Night" and at 2,13 PM place, entitled "Urban Overflights". Work on large formats for the Haudrecy gallery.
2006 Exposes at Haudrecy gallery, Artima gallery, and continues his collaboration with the 2,13 PM space. dd London to his collection of “Urban Nights” and ties up with Open Doors in his new workshop in Carrières-sur-Seine.
2007 Exposes at Mediterranée Antiques, Summerland, California and starts a work on Los Angeles. Ties up with New York for a collective exposition in August at Tribeca.
