ANGE LECCIA

Born in 1952, in Minerviù, Corsica, France
Lives ands works in Paris and in Corsica, France

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After graduating from the art department of the Lycée de Bastia under the guidance of José Lorenzi, Ange Leccia studied visual arts at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne between 1972 and 1976). He then began a career as a visual artist and also as a filmmaker, initiating his research as a resident at the Villa Médicis – Académie de France in Rome from 1981 to 1983.

At the crossroads of experimental cinema, installation and video, Leccia’s images combine portraits, landscapes and stories, often drawing their motifs from nature and capturing moments where intimacy and intensity create a particularly sensitive visual texture. Purity and abstraction become the vectors of a vibrant approach conducive to contemplation. His work proposes a carnal analysis of the image, where light and natural elements assert the energy of creation.

Creator of a singular universe, Ange Leccia is also a federator of talent. He taught at the École supérieure d’art de Grenoble, then at Paris-Cergy, and finally at Le Pavillon, the creative laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo which he created and directed from 2000 to 2017. He is renowned for spotting and developing the talents of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival) and Isabelle Cornaro. He has also taught at Geidai Tokyo University of the Arts and was resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 1992.

Ange Leccia’s works are often exhibited in France and abroad, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, documenta in Kassel, Skulptur Projekte in Münster, the Venice Biennale, the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík. In 2013, the MAC/VAL devoted a solo exhibition to him, as did the Palais de Tokyo in 2014, the HAB galerie in Nantes in summer 2016 and the Akureyri Art Museum (Iceland) in 2019. In 2017, his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery in Reykjavik, then at Maison Salvan (2018), Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains (2019), FRAC Corsica and Casa Conti – Ange Leccia in 2023, Galerie Jousse Entreprise in 2024 and Ukrainian Museum of New York in 2025. In 2022, Ange Leccia was invited to create a video work based on Monet’s Water Lilies, presented in his solo exhibition Au film du temps at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny.

His work is included in the prestigious international collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hiroshima City Museum in Japan, the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland and The Progressive Collection in Cleveland, USA. In France, we can mention the Centre George Pompidou and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris, the MAC in Marseille, as well as numerous Fonds Régionaux d’Art Contemporain (Corsica, Rhône Alpes, Pays de la Loire, Alsace, Grand Large, Hauts-de-France, Nouvelle Aquitaine Méca, etc.).

In 2022, Christophe…Définitivement, co-directed with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival and released in France.

” From his first cinematic experiments in Super 8 to Poussière d’étoiles (2017) and Mer (1991), Ange Leccia’s works (1952, Minerviú) present suspended moments where time and space become the measure of emotions. Steeped in memory and love, introspection and sensation, his videos bring each thing filmed into an incandescence form. Purity and abstraction become the vectors of a vibrant approach conducive to contemplation. His work offers a carnal analysis of the image where light and natural elements affirm the energy of his creation.”

Fabien Danesi

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