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Lionel Estève
1967
InstallationGeometric AbstractionKinetic Art
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- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Kinetic Art
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Lionel Estève makes sculptures and installations from modest, found, and natural materials, grounding poetic formal experiments in geometric abstraction and kinetic principles. Based in Lyon, his practice moves freely across media, resisting fixed classification while maintaining a consistent focus on materiality, movement, and sensory experience. The work consistently returns to the relationship between human perception and the natural environment, made tangible through the physical properties of the objects themselves rather than through image or representation.
Source: Perrotin · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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Perrotin Gallery
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École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
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