10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present French artist, Laurent Martin Lo's exhibition, Celestial Equilibrium, with his series of lyrical mobile sculptures made in bamboo.  

Through years of studying bamboo, Lo has come to understand its multitude of possibilities. His creativity is born out of skill and understanding of the material. His artistic palette is within the physical and sensorial virtues of bamboo – its sophisticated organic structure, energy, and spirituality. Establishing an intimate dialogue with bamboo, Lo experiments with its flexibility, resistance, density, lightness, mathematics, and poetry, a language that allows him to combine both tension and compression, creating sculptures based on movement and balance. Compositions that take over the space and establish a dialogue, where the space around the piece also becomes another defining element of the piece itself.

With his subtle, yet strong gestures, tensions, and counterweights, the artist speaks of a fragile harmony that is achieved using opposites: flexibility and strength, fullness and void, light and shadow, movement and quietness, Lo invites the spectators to begin a personal dialogue with themselves looking for calm, serenity, and the balance in nature. 

Laurent Martin 'Lo' 

Laurent Martin 'Lo' (b. 1967 France) is an artist who currently lives and works in Spain. Lo's first encounter with bamboo was completely circumstantial, but as he recalls 'it was love at first slight'.

Bamboo became his obsession and passion that set him on a journey of discovery, which he refers to as his Bamboo Routes. Since 2004, he has travelled to India, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, as well as Latin America, learning the mastery of bamboo as well as its spiritual potency. Laurent Martin 'Lo' spends his time between his house-workshop in the Alt Emporda (Girona, Spain) and travelling to countries rich in bamboo. His workshop is an old factory which the artist himself has restored, and adapted to develop his art. Inside, against the walls, over the beams, one can see the different pieces of bamboo, together with those weirdly shaped tools, laid orderly near his 'operating table'. Laurent Martin 'Lo' is member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

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