Lion et Lionne

Xavier Veilhan (1963~ ), an artist from Lyon, France, comes into the spotlight as one of the artists, who leads contemporary art in France. He materializes his own aesthetic language based on experiments on diverse techniques and new materials. The artist extremely simplifies the shape of human body or animals and creates them in a process of mechanical production, through which the outcome is left only with materiality to search for the meaning of existence. He aims to find the essence of the existence, whose outer layer, attached over the original form, is peeled off. Furthermore, the artist desires for the audience to mutually communicate with the exhibited works in the same space, rather than to simply view the pieces on display, so that they could feel their own presentness. To this end, he wishes to install his works in a variety of organizations and public places so that more people meet and communicate with them.