Filmmaker, photographer, painter, and designer, David Lynch (born in 1946) creates polymorphic and dreamlike work. Through the multiplicity of his practices, he invents a mysterious and disturbing, strange and poetic universe. Trained at the Fine Arts School in Philadelphia, he has always devoted a large part of his creative activity to the plastic arts, experimenting with all forms of creation. The Air is on Fire, his solo exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier in 2007, astonished audiences by unveiling for the first time a vast body of work by the artist, who had previously been known mainly as a film director and author of such cult films as Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) and the Twin Peaks series (1990-91; 2017). In 2021 David Lynch will start working on a new project for Netflix.
