Exhibitions

Bruno Dufourmantelle’s work is traversed by a corporeal relation with painting and the implications he has in the formulation of an absolute plasticity; this is as true of the paintings explicitly titled « Battles » as it is for the more recent works in which the image appears out of a physical confrontation with the organic aspects of pictorial materials and techniques : « I depart from black backgrounds in order to show light » , black background, light, colours, forms...

This dynamism proves the real quality of this work, whose forms (the content, the subject) do not preexist, but emerge from the void in the surface effects : « Look for beings in painting through painting ». Juxtaposed, isolated, intermingled forms that are difficult to make out (rock-like bodies, horizon-line bodies, landscape bodies) emerge from a « material of light », worked with the impressions of brushstrokes and blades (a series entitled Paysages humains, human landscapes). More-detailed hands form landmarks, while the bodies juxtapose their solitudes and their secrets-neither united nor separated.

Bruno Dufourmantelle occupies this place in which the distinction between realism and abstraction dissolves or becomes blurred, the form and the figure meld in the exploration of pictorial practice. His paintings therefore represents a memory and it refers to the emotional turbulence that a gesture can produce. The artist makes references to what we can’t say, in its capacity to create an analogy with the invisible and the unintelligible: « Paintings are interior places. I am, above all, seeking the interiority of beings and the invisible ». He thus demonstrates, here in a musical mode, that painting is a valid substitute for the depth of emotion or expression.

An energetic painting accompanied by serene and light aerial curves.

Ascending, descending, rotating, hasty and spontaneous traits in Jean-Charles Millepied. Like the path drawn by the baton of a conductor, the gesture is quick and controlled. We find from one canvas to another certain shapes and patterns, such as the notes of a score. Bright colors and infinite shades, bold traces here and more suggestive there.

We feel the physical commitment of the artist, we follow his movement ... the look is lost and we let ourselves be carried away.

A sense of freedom and explosiveness that is rocked by Colette Billaud's constructions balanced and measured. In wood and piano wire, the arches overlap and intersect to find a harmonious composition that takes shape in space. The movement is there, silent and graceful. No ambiguity, just the mobile, abstract, anchored and floating, like a poetry.

A curve, a whirlpool, a round... of the air:

Let’s dance!