Guillaume Leblon
Born in 1971 in Lille, France
Guillaume Leblon is first and foremost a sculptor, working with copper as well as wood, ceramic, as well as plaster. According to Marianne Lanavère, he is one of those artists who “prefer to refer to pictorial abstraction, modern architecture, American sculpture of the 1960s, conceptual art, process art, structuralist cinema... to develop approaches which, although formally distant, stem from the same conception: the work of art as a clue, no matter how tenuous, which is capable of evoking a whole range of references, a construction, a history, a universe.” (Marianne Lanavère, introduction to Guillaume Leblon’s monograph, Les Presses du réel, 2004).
Born in 1971 in Lille, Guillaume Leblon studied at the École des Beaux-arts de Lyon until 1997 before attending the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He was awarded the Altadis prize in 2005. Guillaume Leblon lives and works in Paris.
