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"Inside the Gallery" - Private Preview Night at the exposition "Woodcity QUINTESSENCE" with the artist Laurent Minguet
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申込み締切 : 2026年05月22日 - 12時00分 (UTC+9)
参加費 : Free of charge but registration is mandatory.
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CCIFJ is delighted to organise a private preview at the first solo exhibition in Japan by French artist Laurent Minguet, presented by IKONO ART.
The CCI France Japon is delighted to invite you to an exclusive private preview of "Woodcity QUINTESSENCE", the latest exhibition by Laurent Minguet, at the Gallery Concept 21, to be held on Tuesday 26 May, with the support of IKONO ART.
Drawn from his WOODCITY series, the exhibition explores three iconic cities—New York, Paris, and Tokyo—through hyperrealistic urban landscapes painted on fine timber such as cherrywood, walnut, or maple. Combining precise architectural detail with expressive drips and geometric elements, Minguet’s work reveals a striking dialogue between subject, gesture, and material.
QUINTESSENCE offers an immersive journey into the essence of the artist’s practice, where texture, light, and structure converge to redefine contemporary cityscapes.
About the exposition
Drawn from his WOODCITY series, Laurent Minguet’s QUINTESSENCE exhibition presents an exploration of three of his beloved megacities—New York, Paris, and Tokyo—revealed as hyperrealistic urban landscapes, painted on fine timber of wood and underlined with colored drips and geometrics incursions.
“QUINTESSENCE” leads us to the very essence of the artist’s creative intent: the cohesion and unity between the four fundamental elements of any artistic creation: Subject, Gesture, Support, and Material.
Laurent Minguet paints on fine timber, walnut, cherrywood, or oak species, carefully selected for their random veining. His drawing lines, precise and essential, meticulously traces and reconstructs architectural and urban details in a photographic rigor. The painting reproduces the contrasts of a natural light in acrylic washes that integrate into the very material of the substrate, allowing us to enter deep into his hyperrealism.
The strength of his compositions is underlined by the pictorial material, raw, deposited, thrown, dripping or geometric. This graphic trace destabilizes our perception and finally guides us towards a materialist realism that reveal the fundamental of what is made of a pictorial work, the material and the color.
The subject itself - the city, its life, its icons - is then revealed in a continuity of transparency between the colored materials and the veins of the substrate to transport us into an immersion that is both geographical, conceptual and aesthetic.
This exhibition will take place from 26 May to 4 June at Gallery Concept 21 in Kita-Aoyama.
Artist
Laurent MINGUET
Laurent Minguet is a French multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works in Toulouse in France. Mastering acrylic techniques, his body of work focuses on landscapes and hyperurbanization. He depicts scenes from the world’s megalopolises in a monochrome hyperrealism accompanied by large pictorial incursions.
A self-taught artist, Laurent Minguet developed his hyperrealism technique from a very young age in the 80s, drawing inspiration from the shapes and reflections of automotive silhouettes.
It was in 1995, upon returning from his first trip to New York, that he began painting cities. Initially on canvas, he changed his support in 2014, embracing different type of wood. He carefully select the timber so that the grain pattern would enhance the dynamism of the work.
Like his predecessors Calder, Stella, Warhol, or Koons who have been creating it from the 70s, Laurent MINGUET was commissioned in 2021 to create 2 ART CARS to race in the 24 HOURS of Le Mans. He proposed a dual project based on original paintings, and designed the scenography of the stand to exhibit the 2 cars as in an Art gallery.
Laurent Minguet is a recognized and appreciated artist in Europe, exhibited by several galleries and participating in international art fairs.
Represented by Ikono Art in Tokyo since 2025, the WOODCITY QUINTESSENCE exhibition is his first solo show in Japan.
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