Iannis Pledel creates paintings and photography. His work depicts tales of everyday life, desires, drawn from his own experience of reality. He questions the passing of time and the eternal restarting.

He is inspired by mythical scenes from the history of art, mythology, religious history, and also literature, cinema and pop culture to create striking personal works, imbued with his own pictorial aesthetic.

His stylistic technique is based on sets of overlays : the physical and psychic movements are simultaneously painted or photographed in a constant dynamism offering several levels of reading. 

His painting technique is rich in touches inspired by the Old Masters, associated with transparencies and vibrant colours, creating a language of its own in the field of figurative painting. The canvases, constructed on a thread of thought, initially catch the attention through an aesthetic perception. Then, on closer inspection, there emerges a climate of strangeness as seductive as it is threatening. Behind the apparent beauty, whose luminous colours echo, one can detect a certain form of oppression.

Iannis Pledel (b. 1981, France) lives and works in Paris. Painting has been an integral part of Pledel’s life since his childhood. Later he broadened his artistic horizons by studying art photography at the Gobelins school and by learning various printing techniques, such as gelatin silver printing and platinum palladium printing. He also studied epistemology at Sorbonne University in Paris. After receiving his PhD at Sciences-Po Aix he dedicated himself to painting and other art forms. His multidisciplinary approach is a testimony to his multifaceted experience. 

In Floating Souls, a series of oil on seven canvases, he describes the tragic meaning of being, in front of which, everyone clings to his own lifebuoys. He translates into painting these everyday screams that cross the ages. Each day of each week repeats itself in an eternal restarting.

Fragments of Desires combine painting and photography and reveal different planes that enrich each other in a fusion of colors and light. Like our desires and feelings, they are distinguished by their ever-changing dynamism and their enigmatic character. 

In Odyssey he adapted Homer’s Odyssey by bringing the world of today and mythology into dialogue.

In Deadly Sins he associated fairy tales and photography.

He also distinguishes himself with creations for collaborations, especially with Colette Paris or Estée Lauder, makes album covers such as Génération Goldman, Electro Deluxe, Quintette Syntonia or more recently Acquin.

CONTACT

iannis.pledel@gmail.com