Interview by Jimon

1-Where do you currently reside and work?  I live in Paris, in the 19th arrondissement, near Belleville and Ménilmontant.

2-How would you describe Luc Pierre?  Luc Pierre is a French musician, graphic designer, photographer and artist, his eyes are everywhere, he’s curious, contemplative and he’s quite anxious.

3-Did you attend an art school or is it inherent?  I graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1991.

4-How long have you been making art and what lead you to start? After graduation, I worked in graphic design, layout and photography for 25 years. In 2016, I decided to stop everything and live this adventure, my adventure. I drew again.

5-How did you acquire your style?  Each drawing is a step.  I build and deconstruct. Nothing is guaranteed. The obvious link is the line, the gesture, the rhythm. I’m a drummer and I like rhythms and sounds. So, It’s an abstract partition with chiseled and chaotic writing.

6-Have you ever come across a piece of art that you could not or did not want to stop looking at? I like the world of Michèle Destarac, I like her variations, her syncopations, her imbalances, I also like the titles she gives to her paintings. It’s also a writing work.

7-Tell us something about the art world that you want to see changed?  I think that the world of art it’s not always sincere. Sometimes I feel that there’s deception or sham, all this exacerbated by internet. So, if I wanted to see something change, it would be the sincerity.

8-Why make art? Because it was planned, I realize that now. Working on a computer for 25 years pushed me and inspired to touch the material again. I wasn’t in my shoes but it was not unpleasant. Sometimes it’s very comfortable. I wanted to put myself in danger, see what there’s inside me, at the bottom of the well, my well.

9-The future is; in me .

10-What is your thought on the following statement; Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable! Of course, in a political dimension, a social reading, yes, but I don’t have that claim. My work is poetico-conceptual and in a way it just invites you to think, look differently.

11-Your work has hints of graffiti is that your intention? In a sense Yes, but that is not expressed in the street. There’s the same energy and the same urgency. It’s not my will, but it’s obvious that there’s a link.

12-What advice would you give putative collectors? That the unknowns of today are the known of tomorrow!

13-What’s the best advice you’ve ever received in regards to your art? Do without too much introspection.

14-How do you define success?  Every day is a success. I find it fabulous to do what I want to do.

15-Do you have a place/person/thing that you visit for inspiration? Music, I’m attached to music and to my instruments, it’s a source of inspiration, pleasure and dream.

16-If you could have dinner with 3 artists living/dead who would be at your table? Joan Mitchell, Michele Destarac, Cy Twombly and Robert Motherwell who invites himself late. So, there’s a place for him!

17-Name three things you can’t live without in your studio?  Musical instruments, camera and pastel… and the sunlight.

18-How would someone find you on Social Media?  www.instagram.com/lucampierre, www.artmajeur.com/lucpierre and www.artsper.com