Exhibition: “Portraits en Majeste” in Association NOEMI - Espace Brownstone
The Association Noemi-Espace Brownstone proudly present “Portraits en Majesté” by French artist Pierre Laniau, a powerful and unflinching body of work spanning from 1988 to 2025. This exhibition reinvents the historical genre of royal portraiture, transforming political campaign posters into raw, expressive artworks.
Laniau challenges the boundaries between art, power, and propaganda, exploring how political imagery operates in France’s paradoxical culture—torn between revolution and reverence. His portraits of political candidates, distorted and overpainted, strip public figures of their constructed authority, revealing vulnerability, violence, and myth.
Laniau challenges the boundaries between art, power, and propaganda, exploring how political imagery operates in France’s paradoxical culture—torn between revolution and reverence. His portraits of political candidates, distorted and overpainted, strip public figures of their constructed authority, revealing vulnerability, violence, and myth.
Pierre Laniau
French contemporary artist
Pierre Laniau (born in Paris in 1955) is a multifaceted French artist whose career bridges classical guitar and visual arts. Trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under Alberto Ponce and Narciso Yepes, he devoted himself from 1987 to performing on the 10-string guitar, touring over 100 countries and recording with EMI and Universal. In 2005, he was named Chevalier of Arts and Letters. Since 1988, he has developed the pictorial series Portraits des Princes, blending photography, painting, video, and text to explore human transformation and power dynamics. His work has been exhibited in Shanghai, Paris, and the Palais de Tokyo.
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