Born in Paris, Alain decides at 14 that he will be a photographer after seeing the photos of Robert Doisneau, Lucien Clergues and especially Ernst Hass. Graduated at Vaugirard school in Paris, he made the decisive encounter of Christian Zuber, vice president of WWF France and animal filmmaker, the man of the show “Camera in the fist” and will work with him several years in West Africa. His “animal” eye is educated…
In 1983, color and graphic explode, Cheico Leydman and John Batho impose a new style to which Lacki adheres. He enters into religion with creative photography and advertising. His photographic discourse was already oriented towards “photographic painting” thanks to collages and dye-transfer (Kodak process of coloring and transfer layer by layer). When he discovered Guadeloupe in 1989, ravaged by hurricane Hugo, he met a population rich in authenticity and the Caribbean light-style speaks to him. He settled there in June 1990 to never leave it.
Today, if digital technology has stowed his collages of the 80s in the cupboard, it is not the mother of a sudden easy and too often misguided inspiration. It is an indispensable ally for his creative wanderings.
With 4 other photographers, he created the Caribbean House of Photography in 2010, an association whose objective is to promote contemporary Caribbean photography locally and throughout the world.
Exhibitions
2016 Festival Terre de Blues collective Exhibition Gal. La Suite Marie-Galante
2015 Terre de Blues Solo Exhibition Gal. La Suite Marie-Galante
2012 Art takes Time Square collective Exhibition Time Square NYC
2012 Affordable Art fair collective Exhibition Festival Amsterdam
2009 Altered states of reality collective Exhibition Agora Gallery New York
2007 Âmes brûlantes Solo Exhibition RFO Guadeloupe
2002 Les brasseurs d’art collectiveExhibition Guadeloupe
1989 Emulsions Solo Exhibition Galerie du Soleil noir Paris
1985 Regards croisés collective Exhibition Festival d’Arles
1984 Variations solo Exhibition Galerie Marlières Bruxelles
1981 Naissance d’une ville : solo Exhibition Maison de la Culture
Auguste Perret Le Havre
1980 Une faune à Paris solo Exhibition with M Klein Fnac Montparnasse Paris
1979 En toute liberté collective Exhibition C. Zuber Parc de Boutissin (Yonne)
Publications/Press
« The digital mystery Tour » ARTisSpectrum magazine n°21 – May 2009 par M. Tracy – NYC
« When Art transformsourpreconceptions » Art in America – AfterSea By Cathy Lebovitz
Impact Lab USA – Portfolio
WW News USA – Portfolio
Sober in the cauldron – UK
Rumporter France – Article et porfolio (dec 2016)
Chantal MillersCurator – Contemporary art magazine “Parachute” – apr. 06
“Alain Lacki est rare”; Paule Adeline-Vieillescazes disait cela de lui en 1989 dans le magazine “Marie Claire” à lʼoccasiondʼune exposition à Paris. Il est en effet rare et précieux car il se dégage de son travail un sentiment émotionnel fort.
Lʼoeuvre nous immerge dans une dimension inconnue mais que lʼon croit connaître. Lʼoeilnʼaimant pas lʼincertitude des mondes qui lui sont étrangers, sʼoblige à les situer dans un espace-temps qui lui convient et qui le rassure. Il y a urgence à le découvrir.
