{"id":112380,"date":"2025-11-07T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lilleartup.com\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=112380"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:20","slug":"bel","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/lilleartup.com\/en\/all-artists\/bel\/","title":{"rendered":"BEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon-born Fran\u00e7ois Bel is a multidisciplinary artist, equally at ease with painting, sculpture and installations. His work is as eclectic as his inspirations: influenced by Street Art, from which he borrows its system of repetition and variation, he is also interested in \u201cNew Realism\u201d movements, which particularly appeal to him, as do Dada and Pop Art, for the way they subvert daily objects in order to criticise today\u2019s consumer society, like Duchamp\u2019s ready-mades.<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Bel reappropriates each material, working in turn with nylon cord for his suspensions and wire for his sculptures. He makes play with the idea of compartmentalisation, enclosing some of his sculptures in wire mesh, condemning contemporary society yet again for its individualism and materialism.<br \/>\nIn this way, each medium serves an approach that is both artistic and philosophical. His small \u201cBig Bangs\u201d set in synthetic crystal, as though frozen in the explosion\u2019s ultimate moment of grace, make us reflect on passing time which is frittered away and undeniably survives us. In a society where everything happens increasingly quickly and mankind controls a great many things, Fran\u00e7ois Bel crystallises every person\u2019s dream by stopping time for an instant in his works. A mixture of frustration and fascination, his sculptures mirror our civilisation, anger and rebellion, imprisoned and confined in economic, cultural, social and political contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Bel is exhibited and collected in France, Monaco, Spain, Corea, The USA and Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":112381,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[143],"class_list":["post-112380","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BEL - Lille art up!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BEL - Lille art up!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lyon-born Fran\u00e7ois Bel is a multidisciplinary artist, equally at ease with painting, sculpture and installations. 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