Laurence Nolleau

Strongly influenced by the glamour of the fashion world, Laurence Nolleau hijacks the iconic images, which inspire her portraits with neo-expressionist variations, close to glam'rock.

Armed with her knife, Laurence energetically sculpts her faces to deliver striking and graphic works. The colors are bright and intense, the looks hypnotic ...

Her portraits are striking, expressionism takes on its full meaning here.

"The uncompromising truth always has jagged edges" said the American writer Herman Melville.

The desire to give life to her faces leads her to other research...

Intrigued by the power of Optical and Kinetic Art on the viewer, always in search of innovation and technical challenges, Laurence realizes in 2016 her first wall sculptures in mirror polished stainless steel, interactive and participative light sculptures.

She continues her explorations with the aim of combining optical art with sculpture in an absolute aesthetic research.

In 2019, Laurence Nolleau surprises us with her new Op art sculptures, based on the techniques used by Victor Vasarely, she takes the fallibility of the eye to the extreme to create disturbing optical illusion effects. She uses the visual perception of the observer who sees each work as a photo, and when approaching it, one discovers that it is made of metal lines that recompose it. 

Innovative, she draws the metal with a rare sensitivity, sculpting one by one each metal blade to obtain this amazing result that brings to her portraits: realism, an exceptional graphic purity.

Optical art is an experience of the senses but above all visual. Art is perceptual: there is nothing to understand just to perceive and feel.