Special envoy to Dunkirk
Gérard Duchêne is a mystery, once you leave this North where the clouds invite contemplation, long time and painting.
Ten years after his death, the LAAC in Dunkirk pays tribute to this Lille artist (1944-2014)
“whose work blurs the genres between painting and writing”
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The place suits him well.
It is strange and timeless.
Designed at the dawn of the 1980s by architects Jean Willerval, Roger Angot and Jean-Jacques Roubeau, the LAAC building embodies an avant-garde vision of museum architecture.
Covered in white ceramic, perforated by gaps in the glazing, placed on its concrete pillars like a spaceship or a giant spider, it was founded in the early 1970s, thanks to Gilbert Delaine, a neophyte engineer in art who had a love at first sight for an abstract painting by Ladislas Kijno.
The call of the sea
On its picture rails, large sheets follow one another where the writing leaves enigmatic signs like unknown calligraphy, traces...
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