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Legac’s career started as a photographer in Paris - his first gig was prowling Legac melds together soft curves and hard edges, offering a distinctive
Parisian rooftops photographing cats and though there are few urban spaces sensibility that has given him a clear voice in the realm of futuristic art. And
that rival the city on the Seine, he found his horizons expanding when he in his hands, flashes of Fosse’s jazz age and Dali’s daydreams become a
joined the French Navy, and as a private photographer for Admiral Philippe decadent feast of the senses, a trippy hallucination captured on canvas in
de gaulle traveled the world with his lens. Eventually Legac found himself sumptuous, luscious detail.
in New York City, where the city that never sleeps allowed him to further
develop his keen eye for the female form in all its compelling beauty. As he As his canvases fuse touches of old Hollywood with an electric sizzle, Legac
began exploring the immeasurable possibilities that come with computer remains true to his voice, and rarely strays from showcasing women as erotic
design, his photography background translated easily, effortlessly into that images that seem at once both unattainable – shape-shifting like a surreal
artistic genre. sci-fi dreamscape – and absolutely welcoming. In Legac’s bold world, she’s
part girl next door, part dream girl just out of reach.
Like a modern vargas girl, Legac’s subjects are part pin-up, part figments
of pure imagination infused with an ultramodern vibe, often as ironic as the where his photographs are real and raw, and capture mood and emotion,
American pop art movement that gave us Andy warhol. even amid the feverish buzz of city streets, his painting portfolio is pure
fantasy, from those surreptitiously torn from a magazine to be tucked
whether rising from the steamy swelter of a Miami night or surrounded beneath a mattress to those born in cyberspace, where any decadent
by the techno-charged spirit of his beloved Bangkok, these are the exotic desire is possible.
women whose images must flash through the fantastic fantasy life of Legac,
who brings them to life as desire on canvas. He frames them with distinctive Legac lives with his wife and muse, Thea, primarily in Ibiza, though who
elements that rise like smoke from a cigarette or melt as if they were frosting knows where the search for perfect light will take them next.
in the sun, showcasing his mastery of space and framing. (Brenda Neugent / Ultramodern art with a sizzle)

 WAR Is oVER, 2001 OIL ON CANvAS 47X47 IN. | 120X120 CM.  RIsINg sUN, 2002 OIL ON CANvAS 60X60 IN. | 150X150 CM.

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