Claude-Max Lochu

"Urban Night Writing", 2010, 116x73cm, Oil on canvas, Claude-Max Lochu

French artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon. Lochu was exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, and is now exhibited permanently in Faure Museum as well as in 2 galleries in Paris and Lyon.

Biography

Claude-Max Lochu completed his National Diploma of Painting at Art School in Besançon in 1975 and first exhibited his works in 1976 in Rabat and Tanger, Morocco. In 1979, he set up in Paris and exhibited his work at the Montrouge Contemporary Art Show in 1981 and 1982. While visiting Japan in 1982, he studied the Sumi-é, an ink painting technique, with the Japanese painter Shiko Itoh. As Bashō, he will turn his travels into a source of inspiration. These travel paintings will lead to the Houses of the Sky, studies on reliefs of the city of Paris, Rome, Lisbon, and Amsterdam, London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Berlin.^[1] Claude-Max Lochu also works on still life, interiors, landscapes of south of Europe, such as Mont Ventoux and Sorgue in Luberon, Aix-les-Bains, Valley Di Cecina and Volterra, where he looks for poetry rather than the representation. In addition to his works at the Artima gallery in Paris, Lochu exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Dole and Faure Museum of Aix-les-Bains^[2]. Since 2001, he has held personal exhibitions at the Accademia libera natura e cultura in Querceto in Italia^[3]. Since 2006, he has participated in the Peace and Light Festival for the project of Temple for Peace to be built by the Vajradhara-Ling Center in Normandy with a view to promoting world peace.^[4]

"Gyalwa Karmapa" (Ogyen Trinley Dorje), by Claude-Max Lochu, exhibition for the project of Temple for Peace in France, 2008

Publication

• Catalogue of exhibition of Claude-Max Lochu, 1985, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole

References

1. ^ Allocution de Georges SARRE, Exposition ADORIAN/LOCHU, 30 mars 2004
2. ^ Biographie
3. ^ Accademia libera natura e cultura, Querceto Percorsi, Éditeur Spirito Libero Publinship, 2010, ISBN 8896512050, ISBN 9788896512050
4. ^ Festival Paix et Lumière

External links

• Official Site of Claude-Max Lochu
• Galerie Artima : Official Site of the artist galerie
• Claude-Max Lochu on the site of 2.13 PM
• Claude-Max Lochu engaged for Tibet
• Exhibitions at Musée Faure

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