Origine2 (2020) Collages by Gilbert Le Vast

Gilbert Le Vast is an artist and a professional photographer who seeks to create all kinds of techniques such as collage, highlighting shadows and lights which are particular and powerful in his works.

He started photography in 1970. He worked for the La Manche Libre newspaper, the Zaï photo agency and the Gamma agency, which led him to follow the siege of Sarajevo. It was in 1993 that he opened his eyes to other visual techniques. He was introduced to painting, spontaneously and passionately. Painting becomes his priority and his main activity.

Gilbert Le Vast lives and works in Vallauris in the south of France. He holds a photography CAP obtained in Avranches in France. He exhibited regularly at the Signature gallery in Cannes and at the Endrix gallery in Saint Paul de Vence. His work was awarded in 2000 at the Cannes Art Festival in the surrealism category.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists