World evils

A video self-portrait as a bearded Dadaist, and the painting of a man digging his grave, with heavy medicines in the background, are part of the exhibition on the theme of psychological depression. For the exhibition Le Monde Pansé (The banded world) inspired by the invasion of Iraq, Le Guen is awarded the “Prix de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs”. The hospital environment, medicines, death, and addictions are all reoccurring themes in Le Guen works. He says that it is a way to pay homage to his grandfather, an undertaker; to his father, an architect who finished his days in an asylum; and to exorcise his own excesses.

Pop Culture

In Paris, Le Guen continues his work on subway posters, and newspapers’ cutouts. Through advertisements and the fashion world, Le Guen hunts the iconography of mass culture. For a while, he was even inspired by American comics, Spiderman, Sponge Bob, Donald Duck. The American flag, dollar bills, Ray Ban, and bar code are some popular culture symbol he deviates in order to create his own world between trash culture and surrealism. In that search he is close to the deceased Martin Kippenberger, the last “Punk” of Contemporary art.

Human landscape or eroticism

In filigree of his colored accumulation of motifs, technique, and matter, a portrait often appears. To these fragments of faces recomposed, the feminine silhouette, in multiple positioning, inhabits his works. He offers a second chance, infusing new life into them. Between figuration and abstraction, Le Guen works on the human body and questions desire itself. From latex suits and super heroes to truck drivers naked girls posters, he XXXXX erotism, To his intense paintings and his multi-textured landscapes, he opposes, lately, a series of compositions on black background that reaches for XXX