Pascal Lecocq
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Pascal Lecocq | |
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 Pascal Lecocq at the Opera of Nice (France) during the setting of the Magic Flute, in 2016 | |
| Born | 4 June 1958 |
| Education | Ph.D of Arts, University of Paris VIII (1985) |
| Known for | Fine art painting, set design, costumes design |
Pascal Lecocq (born 4 June 1958) is a French painter and set designer. He is the Painter of Blue who paints on high backcloths of sky or deep sea, as a stage director, figures, horses, divers, allegories, architectures, Venice, and ancient ruins, between hyperrealism and surrealism with a whimsical sense of humor. He is the author of the diving world renowned picture: The Matador.
Pascal Lecocq was born in Fontainebleau, France, on 4 June 1958. Pascal attended, while in high school, Ecole Comairas art school, from the Fondation Taylor, in Fontainebleau, from 1973 to 1977, as a pupil of Yvonne Bouisset Mignon (daughter of the painter Abel Mignon (1861-1936) who studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme; spouse of the painter Jacques Bouisset (1888-1977), the son of the famous author of the poster Chocolat Meunier Firmin Bouisset (1859-1925). His first solo exhibition took place in Fontainebleau in January 1977. He then obtained a PhD degree of Arts at the University of Paris VIII in 1985 under the direction of Prof. Frank Popper. Pascal Lecocq moved to Normandy in 1982, and opened his own art gallery in Honfleur (1989-2000); after a first exhibition at the DEMA[1] show in Anaheim, CA, in 1998, he has been invited to show his artwork in the United States where he moved in 2003, becoming then a US resident.
Stage design
Pascal Lecocq's dissertation for the Doctorate was a philosophical study of the interrelation between all the arts, focusing in the set design in opera, making a historical study specific to the Wandeldekoration,[2] spectacular moving scenery of Parsifal, by Richard Wagner, from 1882 to 1982.[3] Then, Pascal Lecocq worked as a director assistant, and set and costume designer in different opera houses in France (from 1985 to 1996: Lohengrin, Der Ring, Parsifal, Tosca, Traviata …and in 2016 at the Opera de Nice The Magic Flute directed by Numa Sadoul). He also directed Der Freischütz, by Carl Maria von Weber in Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium, in 1991.
