Massimo Dutti’s ArtInProgress project was created with the mission to promote the creativity of local artists from around the world. Another of the latest collaborations has been with artist Luke James in the new Cannes shop, coinciding with the 77th edition of the film festival.
Luke James
Inspired by architecture in search of everyday elements that become poetry and movement, Luke James’ work emerges from the context in which it develops. His practice invokes a physical relationship with materials and space. It forces us to pay attention to materials. To our surroundings and to sensitive moments and gestures. Luke James’ practice – which primarily encompasses sculpture, but also photography and painting – evokes a physical relationship with materials and space. His sculptures could be broken down as a series of sensitive and considered gestures made on raw materials.
“INSPIRED BY
ARCHITECTURE
EVERYDAY
ELEMENTS
BECOME
POETRY AND
MOVEMENT”
LUKE JAMES
ART IN PROGRESS
Cannes
In his photographs, the angle of the camera captures the architectural and geometrical dimension of situations rather fortuitous or provoked by the encounter of dissonant elements, echoing the forms elaborated in his sculptures. His works could be understood as evidence or fragments of his dissection of relationships that oscillate between power relations and curiosity: Man, animals, architecture, social classes are some of the components of the interactions that the artist observes and questions on a daily basis.
LUKE JAMES
ART IN PROGRESS
Cannes
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These reflections are informed by an assiduous reading of American and European literature and philosophy that portray groundbreaking attitudes and thoughts, offering a counterpoint to the prerogatives of modern Eastern society. In his exhibitions, Luke James is most likely to present sculpture and photography together, sometimes punctuated by painting. Each discipline acts as a reading track for the other. For the artist, the exhibition space becomes a territory to be conquered, which he seizes through actions of both construction and deconstruction.