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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets

Lucie Duban

An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Artist Lucie Duban ' s work expertly captures the subtle nuances of her subjects ' atmosphere to inquir into the fundamental need and dependance we maintain with our surrounding . In her body of works that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages , she effectively challenges the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to elaborate personal associations , offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience . One of the most impressive aspects of Duban ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to recall the invisible connections in between each living being of this planet . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her multifaceted artistic production .
Hello Lucie and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You are basically self-taugh , but you have been introduced to art in your childhood with drawing being very present in your family : are there any experiences that have particularly influenced your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum dued to your Spanish roots inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
Hello LandEscape and thank you for having me in your publication , such a great opportunity . So yes I ' m indeed selftaught . I really spent a lot of time drawing as a kid and growing up . ( I remember having done when I was around 11 my own “ Tintin ”, only a few pages though , because I was quite obsessed with this comic and I really adored the character of Professor Tournesol who I wanted to rehabilitate since I thought he was a bit disrespected . I just adored his way of being out of touch with reality . So I drew a few pages with Tournesol being the hero of it .) And I realize lately that the way Hergé draws , with this very neat and closed line , has influenced me a lot , more than I would have thought .
Also my father being a pastry chief , he was preparing his “ pieces montées ” at home and had to draw the whole thing , so it was interesting to watch . Growing up
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