Biography
Alain Lame is a visual artist born in Paris. He studied at the École du Louvre.
He grew up in the 1980s and was inspired by the artistic atmosphere of the time. The 1980s were an era of growing global capitalism. Global political upheavals. Mass media. Unique wealth and differences in music and fashion. All this characterizes hip-hop. Electronic pop music. It had a strong impact on the generation of artists who grew up at that time. The fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the decade meant the end of the Cold War.
Alain, on the other hand, studied influential art movements. They include Neo Geo. The Pictures Generation and Neo-Expressionism. All of these movements gained particular momentum in Germany, France and Italy.
Artists like Anselm Kiefer. Jörg Immendorf. Enzo Cuchi. Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel were key artists who influenced his work.
