There is a particular peace in the paintings of Djamel Tatah, painter of reserve, of distance with emotion, of the symbolic gesture which sums up the relationship to the world, its violence, its destiny.
These gestures are fragments of characters that refer to the history of painting: Piero della Francesca and the Renaissance masters
"in which
(he)
likes to get lost"
, Zurbaran and his
Saint Francis of Assisi
discovered as a child at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, Delacroix and his birth watched by the Angel or Ferdinand Hodler and his dancer at the Museum of Bern.
While the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, dear to Soulages, famously celebrates him, it exhibits at the Jérôme Poggi gallery a dozen contemplative, figurative and forbidden canvases, often on a bluish white background like a fresco, whose mortuary pallor has something mother-of-pearl of the shell.
Tall, laughing, this seasoned painter, born of Algerian parents in 1959 in the Loire, studied fine arts in Saint-Étienne from 1981 to 1986...
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