LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Lucie Duban
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Artist Lucie Duban ' s work expertly captures the subtle nuances of her subjects ' atmosphere to inquir into the fundamental need and dependance we maintain with our surrounding. In her body of works that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages, she effectively challenges the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to elaborate personal associations, offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience. One of the most impressive aspects of Duban ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to recall the invisible connections in between each living being of this planet. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Lucie and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You are basically self-taugh, but you have been introduced to art in your childhood with drawing being very present in your family: are there any experiences that have particularly influenced your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum dued to your Spanish roots inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Hello LandEscape and thank you for having me in your publication, such a great opportunity. So yes I ' m indeed selftaught. I really spent a lot of time drawing as a kid and growing up.( I remember having done when I was around 11 my own“ Tintin”, only a few pages though, because I was quite obsessed with this comic and I really adored the character of Professor Tournesol who I wanted to rehabilitate since I thought he was a bit disrespected. I just adored his way of being out of touch with reality. So I drew a few pages with Tournesol being the hero of it.) And I realize lately that the way Hergé draws, with this very neat and closed line, has influenced me a lot, more than I would have thought.
Also my father being a pastry chief, he was preparing his“ pieces montées” at home and had to draw the whole thing, so it was interesting to watch. Growing up
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