Alain Lestié is a French

France

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 painter

Painting

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 and writer

Writer

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, born in Hossegor in 1944, who lives and works in Cannes

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

 and in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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Since the end of the 1960s, Alain Lestié's work has been a reflection on the critical dimension of painting.

Exhibitions

-2008 -centre d'art contemporain "le Parvis 3" Pau: "à demi-mots" 10-09 au 14-11
-2008 -librairie Ombres Blanches Toulouse:"mot à mot"
-Galerie Depardieu Nice "à mots couverts"
-2007 -Château Lescombes Eysines: "de temps en temps"
-2006 -Original Gallery: contrastes, Monaco -Galerie Meyer Le Bihan: Paris

-2005 -Séquence en noirs: Galerie du Musée des Beaux- Arts: Bordeaux-Galerie Mollat: Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

-Centre d'art Contemporain Raymond Farbos: Mont de Marsan -les géants de l’angoisse (with Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Winston Link, Robert Mapplethorpe,...): Bayonne

Bayonne

Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...

 Art Contemporain

-2003 -Galerie du Triangle, école des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux-Perdu au loin: Galerie Decimus Magnus Art: Bordeaux

-2001 -Galerie " Ombres Blanches ": Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

 -Période noire Domaine Lescombes: Eysines
-Galerie Bleue: Riscle-Motifs pour poèmes: Galerie Mollat: Bordeaux
-Période noire " Le Parvis ": Tarbes

Tarbes

Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.It is part of the historical region of Gascony. It is the second largest metropolitan area of Midi-Pyrénées, with 110,000 inhabitants....

 -Art Jonction: Galerie Birch :Nice

Nice

Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...

-Word Festival of art on paper: Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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(Slovenia)-Decimus Magnus Art : Bordeaux

External links

• The personal works of Alain Lestié
• alain.lestie.free.fr
• http://www.artmajeur.com/lestie/