"Souvenirs de Bruxelles" Lionel Estève : Brussels

For more than thirty-five years, Lionel Estève has lived primarily in Brussels, a city that becomes the focus of his first exhibition at Stems Gallery. Souvenirs de Bruxelles reflects on memory, place and the passage of time, bringing together two meanings of the title: a memento brought back from a journey and a recollection of the past. 

Lionel Estève (b. 1967 Lyon, FR), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Lionel Estève experiments with various materials and handcrafted techniques to create refined objects including – but not limited to – collages, assemblages, sculptures and mobiles. He sees his work as a source of perpetual learning and exploration through a multitude of materials, techniques and forms. His unclassifiable mix-media aesthetics unapologetically eludes the current rhetoric of contemporary art to evoke instead a sheer sense of beauty. Whether figurative or abstract, his delicate visions are generally inspired after motifs found in the natural world or its sensual experience, which is the primary source of his unbridled creativity.