60 × 80 cm
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Hurried passer-by, enter here as into a sanctuary.
Time is suspended.
The cities, stilled on canvas, reveal their strata: stones, alleys, accumulated lives.
Each painting is a freeze-frame of superimposed centuries.
Like a score engraved on a record, already there in its entirety,
yet discovered one note at a time.
Look.
And savour what humans too often forget to see.
Major work
What Remains
Available€4,50060 × 80 cm
Lille is a city of restless destiny. It changed kingdoms the way others merely changed centuries.
Can we, busy French souls, imagine what was happening in our streets fifty years ago — a century, three centuries ago?
It is an enchantment to watch these architectural, artistic and historical strata accumulate, and to be their unwitting actors.
What remains, when history has turned to embers.
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In Negative
Available€3,80060 × 80 cm
The archaeologists of the city of machines do not free ancient Gallic monuments from the earth, for those have vanished. They follow instead the imprints left by absence: the hole of a missing post, the outline of a ditch, the space once occupied by a farm. In negative… We readily imagine history as an accumulation of stones — yet how many civilisations now speak to us only through the voids they left in the landscape?
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Millennia
Available€3,20060 × 80 cm
The children of Angers race across 6,000 years of history. The castle promontory hides, like its most precious treasures, a monumental Neolithic testimony, the Gaulish presence, the Roman presence. Six millennia of love, initiative and care for a heritage built brushstroke after brushstroke.
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Heureux qui comme Ulysse
Available€2,80060 × 80 cm
There are towns whose history is as short as our attachment to them is deep. Towns that cradled our childhood, watched us grow, and scatter poetry across the whole of France.
Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,Acquire this work
Ou comme cestuy-là qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retourné, plein d’usage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son âge !
Quand reverrai-je, hélas, de mon petit village
Fumer la cheminée, et en quelle saison
Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,
Qui m’est une province, et beaucoup davantage ?
Plus me plaît le séjour qu’ont bâti mes aïeux,
Que des palais Romains le front audacieux,
Plus que le marbre dur me plaît l’ardoise fine :
Plus mon Loire gaulois, que le Tibre latin,
Plus mon petit Liré, que le mont Palatin,
Et plus que l’air marin la douceur angevine.
60 × 80 cm
€2,000
60 × 80 cm
60 × 80 cm
60 × 80 cm
60 × 80 cm
60 × 80 cm
€2,600
60 × 80 cm
€2,400
In the studio
Work in progress
In progress130 × 162 cm
The first canvas of a new series. Athens, two soldiers face to face: exploring the reasons that led to the fall of Greek civilisation, and the role of the Roman Empire in seizing the Greek kingdoms. The transparencies of the Greek soldier speak of a civilisation’s fragility — making the passing of time more visible than ever.