GRATALOUP SKY AND EARTH VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
MARCH 12 - OCTOBER 9, 2022
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Watch the virtual exhibition in long version (35 min)
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Watch the sound & light (9min)
For this first opening exhibition of the GRATALOUP Museum and through the theme of Sky and Earth, the artist offers us his own reading of the world and nature, made of matter, sand and metals, but also his approach to the universe, where Sky and Earth often merge.
For the painter, nature dominates human beings. Despite his efforts to become its master, all that remains is this small silhouette, covered with gold leaf, an expression of his own essence, which seeks a path in the midst of a nature that surpasses it or protects it, when it sometimes manages to tame it.
This nature, the artist enjoys looking at it at and reinventing it on his paintings.
The “Plants garden”, in its chromatic reality, takes the viewer into the mysteries of its night sky.
The little "Small air elemental ” flies towards unknown lands, made of sky or earth, drowned in the blue of the space that unites them.
Lost between Sky and Earth, the “Blue and gold dragon trees” erect their chalice of leaves towards the celestial vault.
Stardust in the universe, the “Nebulae” take us into an infinity where the golden tree placed in the middle of them, reminds us of the existence of a planet here below called Earth.
When Sky and Earth merge under the silver sun, it is indeed “Above and below” that the understanding of the world is read.
Below "Eve", the "Angel's wings" spread their protective wings.
In the center of the chapel, only hints of color on the picture rails, the “Flowers of Eden” display their delicate petals around the golden couple, symbol of Universal Love.
On the vault of the priory, at the intersection of the ribs, other works from these series of canvases project their reflection, thus offering visitors a spectacle between Sky and Earth, on a violin concerto by Philip Glass.
Exhibited paintings and associated podcasts
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