Iannis Pledel is a french painter and photographer. His work depicts tales of everyday life drawn from his own experience of reality.

He talks about desires, fears and the risk of getting lost in them. Fascinated and disturbed by the twists and turns of time, by history repeating itself, Iannis Pledel brings the world of today into resonance with the history of art and mythology.

From his works emerge a beauty specific to the artist with the strength of a luminous palette while revealing an enigmatic atmosphere that never ceases to challenge. Forms reveal themselves and slip away to give way to unexpected spaces.

His aesthetic approach plays with scenes where elements and characters intertwine. His stylistic technique is based on sets of overlays : the physical and psychic movements are simultaneously painted in a constant dynamism offering several levels of reading.

The reflections, transparencies and superimpositions in his painting are designed as windows onto worlds that we glimpse and which escape us. Reality and fiction blend together as an embodiment of the complexities of the human psyche.

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Iannis Pledel lives and works in Paris. He is a resident of Le 6B. His career – studies at the Sorbonne, PhD at Sciences-Po Aix, Ecole de l’image Gobelins, learning different pictorial techniques ranging from painting to photography, such as gelatin silver printing and platinum palladium printing – gave him a plural heritage from which he draws to create singular and striking works.

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Currently, Iannis Pledel is working on transparency with oil and acrylic paintings. He explores the relationship between interior / exterior. Like a distorting mirror, it is a visual and aesthetic dive into our way of observing.

His oil paintings entitled Floating Souls, which represent each day of the week, question his personal vision of time passing  and 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 The 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 collaborations, especially with Colette Paris or Estée Lauder, and with other artists for the realization of creations such as the album covers of Génération Goldman, Electro Deluxe, Quintette Syntonia or more recently Acquin.

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CONTACT

iannis.pledel@gmail.com