Baptiste Laurent - "African tapestry" (Exit serie), XL acrylic on paper, 2016

"African tapestry" (Exit series) acrylic on paper, 2016 (160x107cm) Signed on the reverse. Sold unframed and shipped rolled. @baptiste___laurent Artist bio/ Baptiste Laurent (born 1980, Nantes) is a visual artist who lives and works in Madrid and Paris. He has exhibited at various artistic and cultural institutions, including the Institut français de Madrid, Le Palais de Tokyo, Galeria La Caja, Esquina Nua, Espacio Seara, Gazzambo Gallery, Alliance française, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Galeria FL. His traditional medium is painting, but he also works in sculpture and develops projects with a strong literary, social and anthropological component. In his latest publications and exhibitions, "Conversaciones y puñetazos", "Mauvaises Tournures", "Bajo el Mismo Mar" and "Exit", he has repeatedly experimented with collaborative creative work with other visual artists and literary authors. As an anti-academic and eclectic artist, he likes to syncretise pictorial styles, oscillating between neo-figurative narrative, graphic painting and expressionist abstraction. Founder of the 'Latolier' shared studio in Madrid's Usera district, he leads a dynamic community of Spanish and international visual artists Exit series/ Exit is a series of plastic works and a book that have been the subject of three exhibitions, at the Alliance Française de Madrid, the Museo Antropológico de Madrid and the Gazzambo Gallery.

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