Œuvre en papier en clin d'œil à l'univers visuel de la série d'animation L'école du chat noir.
Visual artist, composer, scenographer, and creator of dreamlike worlds.
Welcome to my workshop.
Here, paper becomes landscape, music evokes forgotten memories, and scenography turns into visual poetry.
Colors and melodies blend in strange ways — like a dream-boat adrift.
I design sensitive, dreamlike, and committed projects, at the crossroads of craftsmanship, emotion, and imagination.
My work was born out of a vital necessity: creating to survive, imagining to remain free.
Orphaned at a very young age, I grew up under the influence of spiritual confinement within a religious sect.
But I found two essential refuges: art and nature.
The piano, which I began at the age of four, opened me to classical music and jazz.
Hiking taught me how to contemplate landscapes, to feel space.
At seventeen, I chose freedom by leaving the religious hold and pursuing studies in Spatial Design and Interior Architecture at La Martinière Diderot, in Lyon.
Since then, I have sought to blend sensitive forms, poetic storytelling, and a critical view of the industrial world.
I love paper, abandoned lots, Kafka, Lovecraft and Poe, forgotten folklores, obsolete machines, and mysteries.
I am fascinated by industrial ruins, dark forests, ancient objects, and the sordid corners of the modern world where nature struggles to reclaim its rights.
I work by hand, with patience and precision.
Each creation is crafted as a unique piece: cut, sculpted, composed, filmed, or recorded with care and devotion.
This artisanal meticulousness is my signature — an invisible demand that gives the works their depth, their strangeness, and their tenderness.
Whether it’s an installation, a music video, or a three-dimensional model, I love taking the time to listen to the material, seeking the delicate balance between fragility and intensity.
People often say you must choose one passion and stick to it.
I did the opposite — not out of indecision, but because no single discipline could contain my need to tell stories, to explore, and to weave connections between different forms.
Photography, music, scenography, video, theater, writing, paper cutting, animation… All these practices became my language.
I approached each with the same curiosity and rigor.
Today, they respond to each other, reinforce each other, and enrich one another.
I forged my eye as a designer at La Martinière Diderot in Lyon, where I studied applied arts, earning a BTS in Spatial Design and a DSAA in Interior Architecture.
This journey taught me a rigorous method of design, attentive to functional constraints, usage, and the anchoring in reality — while always nurturing a poetic and formal research.
I developed an aesthetic approach deeply tied to materials, volumes, and the lived experience of space, always shaped by a critical awareness of social, political, and ecological issues.
For me, creating means articulating emotion and structure, poetry and function, hand and idea.
It means designing with precision — whether for a space, a set, a film, or a soundscape.
In 2008, I founded Ödland, a musical group where I craft a mysterious, melancholic sound universe, sometimes dark, sometimes tinged with humor.
Inspired by tales, travels, and forgotten folklores, I compose using acoustic instruments (piano, violin, mandolin, flute, cello), while also incorporating evocative and unusual sounds.
Ödland is a kind of narrative laboratory, where each song becomes a small fiction, a world in itself, carried by intricate melodies and rich harmonic exploration.
In 2024, this adventure reached a new dimension with Des vagues, a musical theater piece that extends this imagination, blending melancholic dreamscapes with poetic drama.
At the same time, I develop a visual and scenographic work around paper cut-outs, three-dimensional creations, stop-motion animation, and immersive installations.
This unique craftsmanship has become my hallmark, fully expressed in my music videos.
I have also collaborated with institutions and brands such as Arte, Hermès, the Musée d’Orsay, Miu Miu, Nike, and the Galeries Lafayette (Christmas windows 2016), designing sensitive worlds, always meticulously detailed and coherent.
My common thread is perspective: a transversal gaze that unites disciplines, brings forms together, and allows me to conceive singular, harmonious projects.
Scenography : shop windows, sets, immersive installations
Paper & Volume : delicate models, miniature worlds, poetic objects
Music & Composition : songwriting, soundtracks, musical theater
Directing & Artistic Direction : music videos, photography, stop-motion animation, visual installations
Teaching & Sharing : workshops, guest lectures in art schools, conferences
I was invited by the Galeries Lafayette to design the scenography for the 2016 Christmas window displays.
One year of collective work for a monumental project.
Creation of the opening credits for the animated series The Adventurers of Modern Art.
A stop-motion series popularizing anarchism, which I wrote, composed, and directed.
In my shop, you will find unique and original handcrafted paper creations to collect.
Delicate objects, meticulously crafted, imbued with mystery and poetry.
Œuvre en papier en clin d'œil à l'univers visuel de la série d'animation L'école du chat noir.
L'horrible usine rouge et grise repose ici, abandonnée sous un ciel menaçant.
YOUNG DIRECTOR AWARD FESTIVAL 2014
CLIP ØSTERSØEN 2012
MY PROVENCE FESTIVAL 2011
PROTOCLIP FESTIVAL 2010
Clip live réalisé pour la chanson Farewell to Erin de Daniel Whelan https://youtu.be/hVr88tJRTEo?feature=shared Written and composed by Daniel WhelanRecorded and directed by Lorenzo PapaceMastered by Cian HamiltonHurdy Gurdy played by...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3qHGO2gKg J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer l’ouverture d’une chaîne YouTube dédiée à mes productions musicales. J’y regrouperai des projets personnels et collaboratifs. Bonne écoute. https://www.youtube.com/@lorenzopapace
Je suis de retour dans mon ancienne école de Design La Martinière Terreaux de Lyon.Mais cette fois en tant qu’intervenant. En effet j’y mène un workshop de scénographie/papier avec les...
I am open to artistic commissions, residencies, scenographic, video, or musical collaborations.
A project in mind? A strange dream to bring to life? Let’s write it together.
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