François Rouan - Odalisques et Pavanes, 2009-2020
| Author | Agnès Fabre and Esther Tellermann |
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| Publisher | Templon |
| ISBN | 9782917515495 |
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At the age of 80, painter François Rouan is returning to Galerie Templon almost two decades after his last show with a brand new exhibition of recent work. Complex and erudite, his new paintings stay true to thirty years of experimentation and artistic engagement, a "political utopia with a humanist dimension." His ambiguous figures and iconographic references are ornamented with motifs evoking the abstract fragments that characterise the artist's core method: braiding. Alternating between relishing the joys of form and colour and posing metaphysical questions, his work resonates particularly strongly with current concerns: our relationship with images, the reverse side of the surface, the capacity painting possesses to reconstruct a fragmental real and mental world. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Galerie Templon, Paris, in 2023.
| 72 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, French/English |
