Jean-Pierre Lafrance - Live and Let Live 72x60 in / 182.88x152.40 cm

Jean-Pierre Lafrance, Live and Let Live, 72x60 in / 182.88x152.40 cm is a mixed media on canvas work, of impressive dimensions, that explores the themes of life and freedom through powerful motifs.

Lafrance remains above all a man of intuition; he goes where he feels his own sources coming from: within himself. This is why the body has so far dominated his subject. It is precisely in relation to this theme that the most vital transformation in his approach has taken place. During the first years of his production, and until the end of the 1980s, he approached this theme from the outside, that is to say, mainly by translating the body in its visible, perceptible expressions.

Today, it is the inside of the envelope that interests him. His most recent production, where many – including myself – believed to recognize an inspiration from the landscape, is eloquent in this regard. In this series, he continues the same quest for the body, which he fragments even further. This body is now one with its environment, taking shape in a bubbling of matter where the notion of volume is inscribed.

The term “volume” is essential here, and it should not be confused with “perspective,” because Jean-Pierre Lafrance transposes onto the canvas this singularity of the body and matter, and this, without deconstructing as the Cubists did. He fragments and unites the body in a molecular dance that respects the two-dimensional reality of the support. A great plastic and aesthetic achievement, a series that has not finished surprising us.

Important / Situational Note:

The illustration of the artwork in the living room setting is a digital simulation. It does not necessarily reflect the exact scale or the actual dimensions of the painting.