Manuel Luballo
A 21st century French painter, he is popular not only in France but also in Japan, the United States, and Korea. In Japan, he has been contracted by Galerie Adeka since 2007 and has been exhibited mainly at famous department stores such as Mitsukoshi and Daimaru. In 2010, he came to Japan and held the Manuel Lubaro Japan Art Exhibition at Kobe Daimaru and Nagoya Mitsukoshi.
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Biography
Born in the suburbs of Paris in 1958
Awards
Won the Grand Prize at the Nolay City Exhibition in 1995
2000: Grand Prix winner at the Annet-sur-Marne City Exhibition
Won the gold medal at the Salon de Gournay-sur-Marne in 2001
Won the APE Award at the Montreuil City Exhibition
Won the Grand Prix at the Salon d'Argenteuil
2002 Silver Medal Winner in the Arts, Sciences and Letters Awards
Gold medal at the Salone d'Automne in Gournay-sur-Marne
Winner of the Grand Prix Leonard Da Vinci Award at the Salon de Nolay in 2002
Gold medal winner at the 2003 Monfermeil Spring Salon
Won the Grand Prix at the Evry City Exhibition in 2004
Exhibit history
Exhibition of the National Fine Arts Association at the Louvre Salon of the French Artists Association Salon of the City of Paris
Salons where he was an honorary guest artist
1999 Honorary invited artist for the forum de l'emploi exhibition in Villepinte
2002 Salon d'Argenteuil Honorary Invited Artist
2003 Montevrain Salone d'Automne Honorary Guest Artist
2004 Annet sur Marne Salone d'Automne Honorary Guest Artist
2005 Courtry Spring Salon Honorary Guest Artist 2005 Croissy-Beaubourg Salon d'Automne Honorary Guest Artist
2006 Salon de St-Germain les Corbeil Honorary Invited Artist Salon de Montfermeil Honorary Invited Artist
Manuel Lluballo's paintings of flowers, Venice and stormy nights resemble the decorations of a theatre. The artist, floating between the imagination and the representation, transforms the real into a lyrical and semi-abstract world. The flowers burn, the sky glows, the pictorial elements are unified and create a delightful harmony of light and colour.
Manuel Luballo values texture. He caresses his paints, kneads them, and applies them thickly on the canvas as if he were caressing them. His touch is an extension of the bold and natural movement of his arms. The movement of his arms and the movement on the canvas match perfectly. His compositions radiate with power. The artist creates the fantastic atmosphere by using red (Vomillion) and blue (Ultramarine) in their pure form, while softening the discontinuity between colors with intermediate tones. He tries to harmonize the subtle nuances in every corner, even destroying the preliminary drawing. This is the world of Manuel Luballo. In Stormy Night, the artist's passion dominates everything. Even if the wind and sea affect the painting, the artist tries to accurately depict the atmosphere. Luballo knows how to keep his distance from his paintings. The artist decides in what direction to take the painting, which parts to abstract and which parts to make concrete, and creates the painting he wants to realize. The fantastical atmosphere of paintings where reality and dreams intersect is actually the product of the artist's clear sensibility.
Univers des arts No147 December 2009 January 2010 issue
Patrice de La Perriere