Des Lucréce

Artist Biography

Young emerging Norwegian-born Vietnamese artist living and working in the US, Des Lucréce is using a combination of procreate, photoshop, and after effects to produce his 3 frame Gif animation reminding us of a flip book full of sketches featuring his signature intertwining lines, which remind us of the various inspiration he taps into like other artists like Basquiat, Keith Haring, Maki Haku, Futura 2000, and Saul Bass as well as reference from his personal life.

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Being a brand agency designer for most of his professional career, Des Lucréce has a strong sense of style and an excellent grasp of the concept of branding, his being defined by the bold use of color and expression!

Having lived and worked in various countries his body of work demonstrates a truly multicultural approach in both style and reference. His studio work delves into his experience of having what he calls "No Home Center." “A common but not discussed issue as a 2nd generation Asian immigrant is that we are too Asian for Westerners and too western for Asia. This, coupled with being called a foreigner in the places I've lived, has created a rift between me and the places I've called home. In essence, "No Home Center" is a disconnect between our sense of belonging and identity.”

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Des Lucréce often likes to make mention of the concept of “objet petit a” developed by psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan more specifically the piece “coke as as objet petit a” by Slavoj Zizek.

Dipping into the concept of the link between the concepts of desire, pleasure and ownership trying to answer the everlasting question of art as an object of desire by challenging what we are willing to sacrifice to acquire it and the satisfaction we gain from owning it.

The artist originally native to the Tezos ecosystem has gained an exponential popularity in just the span of a few years, due to his mastery of the code of the ecosystem leveraging innovatively notion of game theory and tokenomics to put his collector in constant philosophical dilemma. He then branched out to other chains and started minting with great success on the ethereum blockchain. Among his collectors we can find figures of the space well known for their taste such as Cozomo de Medici, Kevin Rose, Mike Shinoda and Mooncat2878 to name only a few.

At only 27, Des Lucréce is surprisingly erudite, referencing psychological concepts developed by Roland Barthes and Kenya Hara throughout his production. He is an artist destined to a bright future in both NFTs and the traditional art world. Many have already knighted him the successor of XCOPY.