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Alain Leriche

Tongue doesn't have bone

About Me


www.lacrymose.com
I’ve always been attracted to painting from an early age, starting with oil painting around 7 years old using knife techniques. Later on in time and space, I developed many interests in media such as video, sound installation and music. My art is a mix between minimalism and expressionism: balancing concepts of simplicity, continuity and discontinuity of our world, the confrontation between time and the fear of time, the conceptual and the relational. A game between abstract and figurative, I constantly seek to express an emotional meditation.
Always very curious, I needed to simultaneously experience many things and see them closer. Everything I do is with passion, becoming more and more emotionally involved in my work, charged by our environment, by love, by life and by death.
Creating a painting is a full process from building the frame, stretching the canvas on it and preparing it to be the support of my art, I’m in love with the oil painting I mix myself with pigments and all the ingredients necessary and more that give me the feeling to experiment my world. The oil painting let me be always in surprise by is reaction and sometimes creating some accident I let in, part of the life.
My influence is very diverse between the music, a very important part of my life, particularly attached to the Gothic, Industrial, experimental and contemporary movement, movies and art. I was touched deeply by the Actionist Vienna’s, by the expressionist, the surrealist, the conceptual and by many artists just to site some like Hans Bellmer, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Dado, HR Giger…some writer as George Bataille, Antonin Artaud…and some music composer as Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and so many more.
"Missing..." Oil / Acrylic
Painting 2008
5'11" x 16.5 " + 3 x 4" x 4"
"Hope" Oil Painting 2008
5'3" x 19.5 "
"Conflict" Oil / Acrylic Painting December 2007 5'11" x 20"
"Emptiness" Oil Painting December 2007 5'2" x 20"

My Interests

I love life with all its feelings and emotions, with all its pleasure, at the research of love, friendship, art, music and so more...

"Love" Triptych oil Painting 2007 3 x 5'11" x 20"

Resignation" oil Painting 2007 3'10"x1'5,5"

"Dying Love" oil Painting 2007 5'11.5"x16"

Crash" oil Painting 2007 4'3'x2'3"

I'd like to meet:


--------------------------- the sky

Music:

EBM, Gothic, Industriel, New wave, dark wave, cold wave, Noise, ska, Trance, classic, contemporary and Experimental: Assenblage 23, Solitary Experiment, Einsturzende Neubauten, Apoptygma Berzerk, Hocico, Funker Vogt, :wumpscut:, Wall of Voodoo, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Velvet Acid Christ, VNV Nation, Haujobb, Nitzer Ebb, Neuroative, terminal Choice, Coil, God Module, Icon of Coil, Combichrist, Prodigy, NIN, Sisters of Mercy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Dead Can Dance, Covenant, Berrurier Noir, Lucrate Milk, Orchestre Rouge, Bonaparte, Trisomie 21, Martin Dupont, Taxi Girl, Marquis de Sade, Suicide Commando, Birmingham 6, Razed In Black, DAF, Angelspit, The cure, Sopor Aeternus, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Korn, Diary of Dreams, Wolfsheim, Siouxsie And The Banshees, New Order, Depeche Mode, the Clash, The Residents, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman, The Stranglers, Steve Reich, B-52's and more...

Movies:

Eraserhead, Everything is illuminated, Edward Scissorhands, Amelie, L'enfant Sauvage, K-Pax, The Crow, Ghost dog, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fountain, Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Akira, Blood, Elephant man, Run Lola Run, se7en, Sin City, The Rabbit Proof Fence, 8mm, Ichi The Killer, Red Violin, Moulin Rouge, Elizabeth, Nightmare Before Christmas, True Romance, bad lieutenant, Twin Peaks, Queen of the Damned...too many

Television:

TV???? I hate commercials, I hate the TV manipulations...Mass soulless...

Books:

Story of the Eye, The Blue Sky, My Mother, The Essai... (George Bataille)
The monk (from Lewis by Antonin Artaud)
Van Gogh, le suicide de la societe (Antonin Artaud)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Ants (Bernard Werber)
...

Heroes:

My mother who died at 49 years old by general cancer, Irene with I Lived 24 years, my daughter, my brother Eric and Lars Frederikson, my mentor and friend.

My Blog

I hurt myself again

This is my last painting called "I hurt myself again", it doesn't reflect my actual state, but some moment in our life.Oil painting   05/2008  5'11" x 16"...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:48:00 PST

Showing 2 new paintings on April 24th 2008

I will be one of the featured artists showing 2 new paintings at the Antagonist Movement Art Show, Thursday, April 24th 2008 at Niagara located at 112 Avenue A on the corner of 7th Street in the East ...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:57:00 PST

March paintings

My 2 last paintings, "Please, say the right word" Oil Painting 2008 5’11" x 20""Too close to God" Oil Painting 2008 5’11" x 20"...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

Those last 2 months...

My painting production slowed down those last months, sharing so much emotion, that I was not use to, it’s taking me time to try, only try to control them. It’s taking me so much energy an...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:45:00 PST

My last Diptych

Diptych "11", oil painting 2008 / 2 x 5'11" x 16" ...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:13:00 PST

Antagonist Movement art show

I will be one of the featured artists showing 2 paintings at the Antagonist Movement Art Show next Thursday, January 31st 2008 at Niagara located at 112 Avenue A on the corner of 7th Street in the Eas...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:37:00 PST

3 new paintings

The last 3 paintings I finished last week, "The Last Kiss", "Torn Apart" and "Torn Apart". Torn Apart was painted together but it's not a diptych and by its title, they are working independently...>.....
Posted by Alain Leriche on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:42:00 PST

"Hope" and "Missing..."

Those are the 2 last paintings I finished this week, "Hope" and "Missing..."..>..>"Missing..." Oil / Acrylic Painting 2008               ...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:21:00 PST

Website and paintings

I posted my new website last night about my art: www.alainleriche.com or www.lacrymose.com , I'll add more section when needed so that it's a good step. I have to do some business card now but I have ...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

Paintings Conlict and Emptiness

My last 2 paintings, Conflict and Emptiness: ..>..>"Conflict" Oil / Acrylic Painting December 2007 5'11" x 20" ..>..>"Emptiness" Oil Painting December 2007        &n...
Posted by Alain Leriche on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:33:00 PST