‘Ressac’ exhibition in Champieux

Description

Works by Champieux. Her understated and luminous painting invites contemplation and a journey towards simplicity and the transparency of a body, a place or a landscape.
“Works of art are the children of silence,” said Marcel Proust, who knew what he was talking about. Champieux speaks little. He paints. It is therefore a formidable honour to put into words what one feels when standing before his paintings.
It is easier to describe a creative journey marked by high standards. Champieux makes no concessions to current trends; his work is a quest. Yet, working in the South, he could easily have succumbed to the temptation to produce works that would readily find buyers, by painting a few fields of lavender and poppies of the sort that flood certain galleries.
His painting, in a word, is not easy. Non-figurative rather than abstract, each painting is always developed from an observation of reality, a sensation, and is constructed through lines of force and colours that have evolved over the years. Initially sombre, the palette has lightened, incorporating a touch of blue and red, and varying shades of grey, always in search of light – a luminous centre that invites the viewer to embark on a journey of their own: the journey towards the painting to earn this encounter with the artist’s imagination that the work affords, but also the journey itself, in a sort of ‘through the looking-glass’ experience. Indeed, the painting calls out to us; that is why Champieux’s work moves us. It sets us in motion; it suggests that there is something to be found, an inner focus, whatever name we choose to give it.

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Spoken languages : French

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• Tour free of charge