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Large vinyl painting on canvas 146x114cm dated 84.
During the 1980s, he painted ocher and pink canvases with vinyl paint, offering matte and chalky surfaces. The gaze sinks into profound works.
The FABRE museum in Montpellier has just acquired 10 works by the artist........
A "quirky" American in search of himself
Born in 1935, trained at the School of Fine Arts in Nîmes between 1954 and 1958, Jean-Pierre Guiot developed from the mid-1960s, a singular work that led him to explore with rare intensity the abstraction for almost 50 years.
From the 1980s, playing on the search for light through transparencies, he opened up a white period where strong color was held in check by a blinding imposition of white. In 1985, comes the period of the large acrylic diptychs where violence is expressed in color and in writing.
Transparencies and superpositions, shapes and sounds tend to unity for a greater emotional shock. From 1987, develop fields of colors where the light comes from the depths in an intense richness of the proliferation. The resonances and vibrations confer a greater interiority.
During these years, he was regularly exhibited at the Nane Stern gallery, avenue de Tourville in Paris, then collaborated with the Bellint gallery, boulevard de Sébastopol. Exhibited at FIAC, his work has been shown in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy.
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