François Boisrond has set up his studio at the heart of his retrospective, at the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète.
This workshop is simple, functional like a tool table, synonymous with long, solitary, meticulous work.
The man who was a professor at Écal (Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne) and at the Beaux-Arts in Paris for a long time likes to stop to chat with the public.
We feel he is ready for the happy encounter of chance, the unexpected sentence that triggers something in him, a secret man.
He expresses himself on the canvas with a contained and persistent passion that makes his painting mysteriously moving.
Tall, deceptively gruff, he is that mixture of seriousness and fantasy, precision and gentleness that makes reserved men so charming.
How to tell forty years of the life of a painter in 116 paintings which begin with “free figures” like pop signals or comic strips coded on tarpaulins and which end in the lives of the saints revisited?
Progress is unlikely.
And yet the course...
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