paintings

This series of square or double square formats is a return to nature, to deserted and bare immensities. Reflection around the power of nature, as much as the need for a post-Covid return to basics, this series is peppered with squares, like incongruous traces of human rationality on an inviolate nature.

Everyone has a very personal feeling about nature, a unique sensitivity to the vast expanses, to the horizon line, to the power of the elements. It is by questioning his feelings deep within himself that the artist expresses a universal reality.

This series of paintings comes from sensations and emotions inspired by the images and impact of dreams - those which continue to inhabit us long after the night, which haunt us and which follow us. No colors for this series, but work in ink, charcoal, walnut husk. 

"Misty backgrounds, with atmospheric perspectives, in which calligraphic traces are inscribed and, often, words, a verse or a sentence, taken from authors who inspire me."

Each of these paintings is a tribute to Arabic and Chinese calligraphic traditions, where painting and letters are intimately linked.

This series of small formats (20cmx20cm) is the expression of the artist's visual "alphabet", recurring and spontaneous abstract lines, tirelessly taken up, developed, associated, in larger format paintings, drawings, sculptures. Each line is isolated here in a small square, like a pixel, and develops its own poetry.

Return here to the origins of Western painting,  homage to the masters of Italian painting from the hinge of the Quattrocento: Fra Angelico and Leonardo da Vinci. On gold backgrounds characteristic of sacred painting of the period, the main lines of major paintings of this "tipping point" are inscribed. Each of his paintings is inspired by the structure of a masterpiece reduced to its lines of force, like a sketching exercise taken to the extreme: the 'Maestà' and the 'Annunziazione' of Fra Angelico, and 'Saint Anne, the Virgin and Child' by Leonardo.