From his beginnings twenty years ago, LX One, whose real name is Alex Bloc (born in Strasbourg in 1979), has patiently followed a path leading him to different materials and techniques. His prolific body of work is the result, and his fascination for geometrical patterns is obvious. This practice is part and parcel of a trend that is a century old, be it optical art of course, but also, on a larger scale, Constructivism, Minimalism, the De Stjil movement or even Neoplasticism or Brutalism. The grid, the oblique, and the diagonal perpetuate this creation of space-time painting, dear to the master of the De Stjil movement, Theo Van Doesburg, whose design of the Aubette in Strasbourg (1928) Alex Bloc has admired. Later, when Alex Bloc discovered Vasarely, François Morellet, Daniel Buren, Georges Rousse, and the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, he changed tack and rapidly migrated to the graffiti scene, in which he was active at the beginning of the century, and then to concentrating on canvas works and art gallery installations, all the while continuing his work in pre-existing places.

Integrating digital tools into his research and exploration of shapes and their rendering, he shapes materials, metal, wood, paper, cloth, acrylic, aerosol, ink, sand, and concrete, and uses and associates each material as a new source of inspiration, struggling against or accommodating its constraints. Reworking the elements produced by hand, re-cutting and reassembling them, he shapes a millimetered concept into a juxtaposition of trials and attempts, until he ob- tains the idea he has been pursuing, the recurring one of having a third dimension emerge from a plane surface, either by creating a very concrete bas-relief, or through optical illusion.

For his in situ works, in the places that existed before he intervened, Alex Bloc respects the basic rules of the installation, be they ephemeral or not, taking into consideration the immediate environment, space, and the history of the place in order to create a dialog between the context, the work itself (as Daniel Buren would say), and the spectator, he who looks at the new ensemble. Playing with perspectives, vanishing lines, visual codes and perception becomes the ultimate means of organizing a sort of visual poetry that is abstract and purely graphic. Beyond the signature, his is a gesture that multiples, and integrates searching and chance into his work to create a piece that is unique and recognizable among all others.

The influences of nature, with her changing and ungraspable beauty, counterbalance the technological character of his creative process. Using his rectilinear shapes that are always modified by the irregularity of a material, either through its resistance to the production process, or the simple trembling of his hand, Alex Bloc offers apparent but fragile order to the incredible diversity of lights on the ocean, mountains, or even buildings that some would deem derisory and without interest.

2020
“Éléments” at Galerie Larock Granoff - Paris / FR 11 images
“Conversations” at Galerie Ducoté - Biarritz / FR



2019
“XU” at La Condition Publique - Roubaix / FR 13 images
“Propagation” at Galerie Ducoté - Biarritz / FR
“PAD” at Galerie Chamagne - Paris / FR
“La Grande Surface” at Installation permanente - Paris / FR
“Trajectoire” at Groupshow - Paris / FR



2018
“Extrait” Groupshow at Popup - Paris / FR
“Abstract s.....t art” Groupshowat Spacejunk - Bayonne / FR
ïDuoshow with Remi Rough. Zimmerling Jungfleish - Saarbrucken / DE



2017
“Winter” Groupshow at David Bloch Gallery - Marrakech / MA 15 images
“Art Elysees” at Fx Chamagne - Paris / FR
“Off the wall” at Zimmerling Jungfleish - Saarbrucken / DE
“Contemporism” Groupshow at Zimmerling Jungfleish / DE
“The Grid” at BleuNoir. Paris, Biarritz / FR



2016
“Sensitive Eye III” at David Bloch Gallery - Marrakech / MA
“Artmosphere” at Biennale - Moscou / RU 7 images
“Marrakech Biennale” - Marrakech / MA



2015
“XV Classes” - Saint Jean de Luz / FR
“Sensitive Eyes” at David Bloch Gallery - Marrakech / MA
“Aux Tableaux” at Résidence Artistique Ephémère - Marseille / FR
“Ambiguity” at immerling & Jungfleish - Saarbrucken / DE 6 images
“Hexagérations” at Residency & solo show at L'arrière Boutique / 9eme Concept - Paris / FR
“Urban Art Biennale” at The Volklinger Iron Works Museum - Saarbrucken / DE



2014
“Premiere Stroff” at Off Start - Strasbourg / FR
“Avant Destruction” at Carré Bonnat - Bayonne / FR
“Deconstruc” Soloshow at Cour Interieure - Biarritz / FR
“Love it or Leave it” Groupshow at OneGrandGallery - Portland / USA
“Major Minority” Group show at 1amsf - San Francisco / USA
“40Jours” - Biarritz / FR
“Sensitive Eye” Groupshow at David Bloch Gallery - Marrakech / MA



2013v
“Analog vs. Digital” La Maison Bleue. November 2013 - Strasbourg / FR
“Geometry of Chance” Mirus Gallery. July 2013 - San Francisco / USA
“Unfolding” David Bloch Gallery.May 2013 - Marrakech / MA
“Wider than a postcard” Groupshow at Breezeblock gallery - Portland / USA



2012
“Perspective” at Providence - Guethary / FR
“Space// Form” at Breezeblock gallery - Portland / USA
“Union” at A word of Art - Capetown / ZA
“Pimp my sneakers” Melbourne / USA
“Permanent collection” at Karpo - London / UK



2011
“Graffuturism” at In Situ. ArtBasel. 2011. Miami / USA
“Hexagon x BDP” at Popup Bleu de Paname - Paris / FR
“10” at Mews gallery - London / UK
“AOC03” at Future Everything Festival - Manchester / UK



2009
“City4Sale” at Rzostore - Strasbourg / FR
“Line Stepper” Birmingham / UK
“401” at 401 Contemporary Art Gallery - Berlin / DE



2008
Berlin bridge Art Fair - Berlin / DE
“Regnr8” at Maison de l’architecture - Strasbourg / FR
“In Situ” at Espace G - Strasbourg / FR
“Biodivercitizen” at Le Passage - Strasbourg / FR
“Perception” London / UK
“Prologue” London / UK



2007
“Artside” Strasbourg / FR
“Tag the system” Paris / FR



2005
“Future Fantasy” at Cor+Interlubke - Strasbourg / FR
“Summer Session” at Kehl / DE


2004
“Destroyerlines and friends” at Contrejour - Strasbourg / FR