YANN THE OUTSIDER

Yann Le Berre aka Yann L’Outsider was born in 1984. At the age of 17, he began to learn graffiti and, driven by the adrenaline-fueled release of an instinctive creation on the fringes of the law, he developed his practice of urban art by investing abandoned places in their own fate in order to register and affirm his artistic identity. In parallel, he enrolled at the Boulle School to study cabinetmaking. An art craft of excellence subject to meticulous and codified requirements aimed at perfecting the execution, in contrast to the explosive artistic expression of graffiti.

Yann L’Outsider, who presents himself as «accidently urban», currently lives on his family’s lands in Brittany, a constant source of inspiration that undoubtedly contributed to his evolution towards the web and the studio work. The artist has oriented his aesthetic research towards abstraction, gradually abandoning color. Yann L’Outsider explores, among other things, two dimensions: typographic abstraction through formal compositions around the letter – an aesthetic nurtured by the DNA of the graffitier – and metaphysical abstraction inspired by the observation of cosmic movements and the dynamics of the elements, from which he seeks to transcribe the kinetic in the lines and dizzying games of light and dark. More recently, Yann L’Outsider has approached the figurative dimension in the studio, inspired by the observed proximity between dance and the gestural choreography of graffiti, represented in stylized forms.