Flour square - Abstract expression
CulturalFrom Tuesday 11 to Sunday 16 March 2025
Every day
Location : Carré à la Farine
Presentation
A retrospective of the last twenty-five years by the painter Gonzague Chupin. Watercolours and gouaches, oils, collages: a journey from expression to abstraction through a hundred or so works.
abstraction through a hundred or so works.
Expressionism and Abstraction, two artistic movements that illuminated the 20th century. Painter: Gonzague Chupin.
Expression first. The watercolourist's landscapes dance; the roofs of Alsace waltz to inspire a canvas. Dictated by the musical undulations of Vosges balloons, shapes form an alphabet to condemn violence, speak out against the horrors of war and sing of life in all its forms - morphology.
Collages of scraps of photos and magazines lend themselves to expression. They also allow me to move towards abstraction: my collages of letters are illegible.
Abstraction came from Estève, Soulage and above all Jacques Villon and François Kupka, who cultivated beautiful drawing in Puteaux. They led me towards a more rigorous style of painting. A framework of eight parts, three on one side, five on the other. That's my current credo, which I'm going to have to overcome.
Expressionism and Abstraction, two artistic movements that illuminated the 20th century. Painter: Gonzague Chupin.
Expression first. The watercolourist's landscapes dance; the roofs of Alsace waltz to inspire a canvas. Dictated by the musical undulations of Vosges balloons, shapes form an alphabet to condemn violence, speak out against the horrors of war and sing of life in all its forms - morphology.
Collages of scraps of photos and magazines lend themselves to expression. They also allow me to move towards abstraction: my collages of letters are illegible.
Abstraction came from Estève, Soulage and above all Jacques Villon and François Kupka, who cultivated beautiful drawing in Puteaux. They led me towards a more rigorous style of painting. A framework of eight parts, three on one side, five on the other. That's my current credo, which I'm going to have to overcome.
General information
- Cultural and artistic :
- Exhibition
- Art and culture :
- Modern/contemporary art
Contact
Ville de Versailles
Phone : +33 1 30 97 80 00
Location
Carré à la Farine
70 bis, rue de la Paroisse
78000
Versailles
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70 bis, rue de la Paroisse
78000
Versailles
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.807184
Longitude : 2.131759