Jean Labourdette
Prehumous Reliquary
Medium: Acrylic on panel, antique clock case, wood, brass, hologram, and human bone.
Dimensions: 20 x 19 x 4 in.
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Don’t Stand There Gawping Like You’ve Never Seen The Hand of God Before! (Homage to Terry Gilliam)
Medium: Oil and gold leaf on wood, gold leaf on metal.
Dimensions: 20 in. in diameter
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Biography
Born in the Paris region and based in Canada since 2001, Jean Labourdette, also known as Turf One, is a self-taught artist whose work lies at the intersection of graffiti, painting, and contemporary surrealism. Active on the Parisian graffiti scene since the late 1980s, he has made a name for himself with his unique characters, imbued with a strange humanity and a mystical intensity.
His visual universe, drawing inspiration from the imagery of sideshows, traveling theater, the Flemish Primitives, and religious iconography, blends the sacred and the grotesque with a delicate irony. Labourdette creates enigmatic figures that oscillate between beauty and unease, between a reliquary and a memento mori.
Today, his work explores the human and animal soul, the passage of time, and the blurred boundary between dream and reality. Represented and exhibited internationally, he occupies a unique place in the contemporary art landscape, at the crossroads of tattoo art, pop surrealism, and outsider art.
Highlights
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Long Beach Art Museum, California, USA
2017
Participation in a museum series celebrating artists from the street art and pop surrealism movements, in which Turf One presents a work that blends classical realism with an outsider aesthetic.
Vitality and Verve
Halle Saint-Pierre Musée, Paris, France
2020
A major exhibition dedicated to marginal and hybrid approaches, showcasing the surreal and iconic world of Turf One.
Mural in support of the SPCA.
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