Description
About the artist –
LE SONNEUR is an artist and designer. Between street art and contemporary art, he transforms the banal into poetry and tells us stories. His drawings, installations and sculptures are visible in the streets and in galleries in Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Melbourne or Dubai…
Throughout his urban walks, Le Sonneur sticks bells at the doors of strangers. He also slips anonymous love letters under your doors and in your mailboxes. On the sidewalks, he leaves keys with the names of imaginary lovers. The Ringer also hijacks hotel door hangers and hangs them on the doors of your apartments or rooms, replacing the usual “Do not disturb” … The city is his playground and the souls who inhabit it his inspiration . Its minimal and singular style is close to street art. However, his interventions are not invasive, but rather so many touches of poetry detectable by the one ready to open his eyes and agree to interrupt his routine for a moment. At first glance, the works of the Ringer seem to be innocuous gestures. However, when we stop there, we discover a succession of levels of reading, of poetry, where every gesture is thought out, every word is precise and the references subtle …
About the GENIUS LOCI series of drawings –
During antiquity, the Romans believed in the spirits of the places, these supernatural and protective beings who watch over places and those who pass through them. Each beach, each forest, each house had its own. And in the corridors of the imaginary Hotel of Sonneur, in its rooms and in its nooks, there are still many today. Between these walls, life unfolds. And here it is the geniuses of the place that Le Sonneur reveals to us with this series of 14 original drawings in ink on paper …