2005-2006

This series was realised during spring 2005. It is just after the completing of two of his paintings - Le paradis and La ronde de nuit - that this unexpected bestiary was born.

When having followed his painting from 1996 to January 2005 – respectively from les trois philosophes to la ronde de nuit - one cannot but be surprised by the stylistic jump. What happened ?

There seems to be no transition between the pictorial brushwork inspired by the Renaissance and its highly detailed characters, and the jubilant breath, the coloured passion, the substance that digs the surface, these coarse canvas which host these animals.

2005-2006

Series of drawings on paper strengthened on wood. A new facet appears in this work on paper. No the dream of flight, not of other-worldliness, solids double incarnations of beings, man-women/birds or birds/men. Biology loses its genetic markers there, the art of the transformation finds new dreams there .

The invoice is very free, playing with dexterity of corrosive of the black lead or the fulgurating gesture of a feature, mixing the matters with modelled invaluable with the pencil, the depth of the blacks obtained by secret alchemy, with the gilded colors of wood or waxed paper.