Ludovic Boulard Le Fur is a French multidisciplinary artist, whose artistic practices include drawing, lithography, and engraving. Born in 1981, Ludovic attended a visual communications school and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA), where he studied engraving and got familiar with silk-screen printing.
Le Fur started drawing at an early age. Speaking of his childhood and his experience with education system, Ludovic says “In classes, I was buried under my drawings, hiding. I hated school, I used to look out the window, at the gate that was separating us from the world out there. I hated the fact that they were not teaching us the basics, like how to make fire.”
Inspired by comics and superheroes, such as the ones from DC Comics, Marvel, and Les Crados, Ludovic creates works on paper, wood carvings, and installations. Filled with forms and signs, his works aim to abandon the banks of representation and give free rein to the raw and powerful language of drawing. Working with wood, he cuts forms, paints and draws on them, and finally assembles it to create one complete piece.
Freed from their bright colors and carved directly into the wood, Ludovic Boulard Le Fur’s works on wooden structures evoke past times, ancient cults of objects and cave drawings.
Le Fur is currently teaching visual arts in a non-profit organization. He is represented by Galerie Celal, based in Paris.
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Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Golden Field | Chateau de Champdor, France | Group |
2015 | Superstructure | Genève | Group |
2015 | Guardie Show | Paris, Bologne | Group |
2015 | Einmal Ist Keinmal (une seule fois ne compte pas) | Galerie Celal, Paris, France | Group |
2015 | Underground, Revues alternatives | Cité internationale des Arts, Paris | Group |
2014 | Les embruns du talus | Espace Xavier Violet, La Tranche Sur Mer, France | Solo |
2014 | Ludovic Boulard Le Fur | Galerie des Tanneries, Nérac, France | Solo |
2014 | Accrochage 2014 | Galerie Celal. Paris, France | Group |
2014 | Damnation Sauvage 2, Temple Vengeance | Mat Galerie, Montpellier, France | Group |
2013 | Traquenard | COOP, Bidart, France | Solo |
2013 | Ludovic Boulard Le Fur | Centre d’art de Pollen, Monflanquin, France | Solo |
2013 | Extensions | Galerie Celal, Paris, France | Group |
2013 | Brûle Monsieur Carnaval | Centre d’art Les Passerelles, Pontault-Combault, France | Group |
2013 | Escape the Landscape | Galerie DogPig, Taïwan | Group |
2013 | Urban Brains | Galerie Celal. Paris, France | Group |
2013 | Suite Kimono, Exposition autour de Singeon | Galerie Lazer Quest. Le Bloc. Paris, France | Group |
2012 | Ludovic Boulard Le Fur | Musée Marzelles, Marmande, France | Solo |
2012 | A place near Vahna | Galerie Stattberlin. Berlin, Allemagne | Group |
2012 | 36 Mountains | Zagreb, Croatia | Group |
2012 | Spacejunk | Lyon et Montpellier, France | Group |
2012 | Grotesque | Galerie Le Mat. Montpellier, France | Group |
2012 | Stratos. Invitation par La Revue Collection | Centre d’art contemporain de Lacoux, France | Group |
2011 | Frédéric Magazine | Galerie Jean-Marc Thévenet. Paris, France | Group |
2011 | Rock | Galerie Voskel, Paris, France | Group |
2011 | Screenophrenia 1 et 2 | Art Galerie, Liège, Belgique | Group |
2011 | Lucid dreams | Invitation de Mark Murphy, San Diego, USA | Group |
2011 | Pink Poseidon 6ème edition | Galerie Place Forte, Paris, France | Group |
2011 | L’ivresse des cîmes | Galerie Ra, Anvers, Belgique | Group |
2011 | CHIC DESSINS | Cabinet de dessin contemporain, Paris , France | Group |
2010 | Yeti-King | Collection particulière Xavier Cazard, Paris, France | Solo |
2010 | Kiosque images | Paris, France | Solo |
2010 | Vestiges et fétiches | La Maison Rouge, Paris, France | Solo |
2010 | Ludovic Boulard Le Fur | Loubard à l’Atelier Katalin, Paris, France | Solo |
2010 | Whatever they feel | Galerie Wilkinson, Londres, Angleterre | Group |
2010 | Rencontres | 6B, Saint-Denis, France | Group |
2010 | Summer Group Show | Fat Galerie, Paris, France | Group |
2010 | Rue des promenades | L’USINE, Paris, France | Group |
2010 | Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent ? | Galerie Talmart, Paris, France | Group |
2010 | Viral Kabal | Pink Poseidon. Paris, France | Group |
2009 | Parcours d’artistes | Pontault-combault, France | Group |
2009 | Singuliers et Solitaires | Galerie CROUS-Beaux-arts, Paris, France | Group |
2008 | Jeune creation | Paris La villette, France | Group |
2008 | Géants | Dessins collectifs, ENSBA Paris, France | Group |
2008 | Sur un fil de beauté, art singulier | Saint Germain en Laye, France | Group |
2006 | Embarquons-nous | Bretagne, France | Group |
2006 | Vitrine Frédéric Magazine | Galerie No Good Window, Paris, France | Group |
2006 | Revue Politique | Galerie France Fiction, Paris, France | Group |
2005 | The moth symposium | Canberra, Australie | Group |
2005 | Visage | Canberra, Australie | Group |
2005 | 1-X | Galerie droite de l’ENSBA. Paris, France | Group |
2004 | Group Show | Galerie Passage d’encre, Martine Namy-Caulier, Paris, France | Group |
2004 | Biennale de la gravure grand format | Venise, Italie | Group |