Lucas Grandin

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Lucas Grandin
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Lucas Grandin
Born1976
Le Mans, France
NationalityFrance

Lucas Grandin was born in 1976 in Le Mans, France. He is an artist, curator, teacher, and active initiator of various projects. Lucas Grandin has developed an approach combining sound, video, light, low-tech with a particular focus on the urban planning and architecture. Currently he lives and works in Sarthe, France.

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In 2001, Grandin obtained DNSEP from the College of Fine Arts in Le Mans. He experienced sound as his primary material for work and experimented with it in various forms: video and sound installations in situ, performances, diverted machines, etc. For him the sound, being a noise, music, idea, or material, is a natural energy, message and social claim. Grandin’s approach is supported by concepts of recovery and recycling, be it material or ideological (copyleft, low-tech). His projects go against a fragile idea of art, precious and mercantile, instead they emphasize a ludic and social approach of ideas. He anchors his work in DIY and recovery concepts and confronts his practices in urban spaces. In Douala (Cameroon) he presented Douala Feed Back (2005), Zebu Douala (2007), Le Jardin Sonore de Bonamouti (2010). The latter was also realized in Sao Tome, Nantes and Angers. He also participated in various collaborative projects, such as, Project PUB (Pavilion Urbain de Bonanjo), P.I.A.F, and C.A.I.R.E.

His work has been shown in various exhibitions in France, Portugal, Cameroon, Canada, Mexico, Sao Tome, the USA and in different biennales and triennales. Lucas Grandin is also a co-curator of the exhibition Making Douala presented in Dakar, Rotterdam, Ghent, Nantes, and (in 2017) in Basel.

In 2013, he won the 1st prize of the Audace Artistique (Daring Art), which was awarded by the President of the Republic of France for his project designed together with Jean Moulin school in France, the art centers La Criée and doual'art. In 2014 Le Jardin Sonore de Bonamouti was included in Beaux Arts Magazine. It was also presented in a booklet published by the Tate Modern, Across The Board in the edition of Bozar Brussel, Visionary Urban Africa and DOMUS. In 2015/2016, the city of Angers commissioned a Jardin Sonore for a new district of the city, and was selected for the international exhibition The New Eve in the brickyard of St Brieuc (France).

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