Luc HO

Lê Bá Đảng Artwork Expert, Photo & Visual Artist

France | Paris

Artist working across painting, photography and video, trained in 16/35 mm filmmaking at the Louis-Lumière National School of Cinema and in digital video at Gobelins, School of Visual Arts, Luc HO has continually explored new ways of seeing by inventing creative processes and hybrid forms at the crossroads of multiple techniques.

He is also the universal legatee of the patrimonial and moral rights of the work of artist, printmaker and sculptor Lê Bá Đảng (Lebadang). He holds all prerogatives required to authorize the reproduction, distribution and exploitation of the artist’s work. He provides expertise and authentication services for auction houses and private collectors.

In 2015, together with Myshu Lebadang, he organized the donation of a group of works on paper to the Cernuschi Museum in Paris, showcasing the full scope of Lebadang’s artistic research and technical innovations in the field of printmaking.

PUBLICATIONS

In 2018, he directed Genesis for Éditions lelivredart, a facsimile of a sketchbook of India‑ink drawings dating from 1960. This set of 46 drawings depicts Lebadang’s vision of the evolution of the species.

On 11 March 2022, the first monograph Lebadang 1921–2015 was published by Éditions lelivredart under his direction. The bilingual French‑English volume aims to contribute to the international recognition of the artist’s work.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

In April 2019, he became Artistic Director of the Lebadang Memory Space, located in Kim Sơn, Huế, Vietnam. This private museum features contemporary architecture inspired by Lebadang’s Spaces and houses a private collection.

For 2026–2027, he is preparing the exhibition LEBADANG – Landscape of the Soul, which will present the legacy donated by Myshu Lebadang to the Lebadang Memory Space within the museum’s collections.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1974–1980

Training in visual arts and art history at the École municipale Édouard‑Manet (Gennevilliers) and the Académie de la Grande‑Chaumière (Paris). Early practices in film photography and black‑and‑white printing.

1980–1991

Figurative oil paintings with bodies seen from above, colored flat areas, and word‑titles disrupting the surface. Appearance and disappearance of a body. Difference and repetition where the same is always other.

1991–1993

Printmaking and lithography (Atelier Babette Pons). Development of a personal technique for oxidizing metals (copper, steel, zinc) using adhesive‑tape masking and ferric chloride. Nitric‑acid washes on steel. Machining, polishing of surfaces, and assembly with recessed or protruding material inserts.

1993–1994

Acid drawings using ferric chloride and mold on paper. Photographic capture of the decomposition process. A study of the ephemeral and disappearance.

1993–1995

Photographic series on the organic inspired by Georges Bataille’s work, exploring an erotics of bodies (view from above, blur, overexposure, superimposition, black‑and‑white, and cross‑processing E6–C41). The real and its double.

1995–2003

Experimental videos, found footage, mashups, and interactive animations using Macromedia Flash.

2003–2010

Series of 25 interactive animations based on fragmentation, discontinuity and randomness, inspired by the films of Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, Samuel Fuller, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Chris Marker, Christopher Nolan, Sergueï Paradjanov, Gus Van Sant, M. Night Shyamalan and Lars Von Trier.

2014–2022

Recent works on fragmentation and surface organization: oil paintings after Caravaggio and Velázquez, and digital paintings after Théodore Géricault (Le radeau de la Méduse) and Titian (The Crowning with Thorns).

2017

Condensed cinematic sequences from Lost Highway by David Lynch (1 frame per shot) and The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro (2 seconds per shot).

2020–2021

Cinematic mashups based on works by Dario Argento, Alfred Hitchcock, Aki Kaurismäki, and Takeshi Kitano.

2023

Digital paintings after Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.

2024

Digital paintings after Cain and Abel by Lionello Spada.

2025

Digital paintings after Judith and Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi.

2026

Digital paintings after the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.