Higher Art

Laurent Schkolnyk

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Biography

Laurent Schkolnyk is a French artist uses the printmaking method called Mezzotint, which was developed in the seventeenth century throughout his art practice. Working both in black and white and with three plate colour prints Schkolnyk creates fanciful still life’s which are included in the collections of The County Museum of Los Angeles, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and The National Library of Paris. Schkolnyk trained both in medicine and fine art, studying at The Beaux Arts School in Nates. Later he apprenticed with the renowned mezzotint artist Yozo Hamaguchi. Schkolnyk, uses the still life format to unleash small worlds, which whirl inside a teacup or slip out of a vase. His colour prints illuminate their subject matter from within. These objects issue light into their surroundings and seem linked to the space around them. In contrast to his colourful works, which wed subject and background are his black and white prints which create a clear division of energy between object an it’s environment These are edgy often unsettling works which hold a kinetic potential. Here Schkolnyk explores a world without humans in which objects take on lives of their own.

Schkolnyk, works capture both a spontaneous moment and a world, which hangs outside of time. Each seems a small miracle when measured against the laborious and meticulous demands of mezzotint.

Lee Goss