La Fin du Banal

On the occasion of the publication of his monograph La Fin du Banal published by the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the artist Thomas Lévy-Lasne looks back on twenty years of artistic practice.

Accustomed to conducting the interview through his YouTube/Twich channel, the artist graduated Beaux-Arts de Paris overturns the rules of the game and offers students of the School to lead the conversation starting from the book. 
The meeting will be hosted by Zoe-Jane Clarke, Félix Crossonneau, Céleste Desplanche, Eugénie Didier, Yeva Khrapova and Viktoria Oreshko, student of the Eitel workshop, with the complicity of Audrey Illouz.

With his holiday watercolours, his charcoal displays of events or his oil paintings exploring urban solitude, Thomas Lévy-Lasne has classically approached a variety of topics as diverse as they are contemporary. Timeless themes such as loneliness, melancholy, tenderness and banality, while questioning the influence of ubiquitous screens. Recently, he has incorporated the vertigo of climate drift in his painting. 
Taking note of this paradigm shift, he also takes care of his biotope by interviewing for three years almost a hundred contemporary painters of the French scene with his Youtube/Twitch channel «Les apparences» which led him to orchestrate «The day of painters» at the Musée d'Orsay, in September 2024.

Graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and former resident of the Villa Médicis 2018-2019, Thomas Lévy-Lasne has participated in numerous institutional exhibitions including at the Musée Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2023; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dôle, 2023; MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, 2023; MUCEM, Marseille, 2022; Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2019 and soon at the Centre Pompidou Metz.

Photo credit: © Michaël Huard