ROGER DERIEUX 1922/2015

COLLAGE BY ROGER DERIEUX TITLE "GRAVE" ON BACK BEARS NUMBER 349 DATE 93. 30X30CM
VERY REFINED WORK

Born in Paris in 1922, after living and working in Paris and the Ardèche, Roger Dérieux set up his studio in Pern, Lot, in 2009. A lover of poetry, a friend of Picabia and Ponge, a fellow traveler with Debré, Poliakoff, Estève and Soulages, with whom he participated in the most popular artistic events of the post-war period, Roger Dérieux developed a pictorial language that made him stand out from the rest. From the outset, he pursued an independent path towards an increasingly stripped-down language. From an expression that emphasized color and was open to the outside world, he came to internalize and abandon any directly legible representation.
His trademark is classical elegance, economy of means and chromatic subtlety. His repertoire (still lifes, figures in the studio, Nordic and industrial landscapes, skies carried by windswept valleys) is striking for its expressive fulgurances and harmonic audacity. His increasingly allusive "Cities" series led him to collage, which since the 1980s has been a direct extension of painting. Rarely using pre-existing elements, preparing and painting in oil the papers he uses as he works, he often mixes painting and collage, arranging his fine colored papers into abstract figures of perfect balance.

In 1985, the painter began a major series of collages, stripped of all figurative elements. This marked a turning point in the orientation of his work, initially under the sign of Kurt Schwitters, about whom Imre Pan had spoken to him a great deal.
1992 Solo exhibition "Peintures 1990-1991", Galerie Darial, Paris. "Collages, décollages, images détournées", Musée Ingres, Montauban and Musée de Pau.

1993 He is invited to the exhibition "L'œil et Ponge" (Francis Ponge et les artistes), Galerie de l'Échaudé, Paris, organized by Frank Waill. He creates a large collage (4m⊃2;) "Hommage à la Francophonie", for the Château de Joviac, in Rochemaure, southern Ardèche.
Solo exhibition, "Collages 1988-1993 et œuvres sur papier 1952-1984", Galerie de l'Échaudé, Paris. Solo exhibition at GAC (Groupe Art Contemporain), Annonay, chaired by André Paret. Present at FIAC, with Galerie de l'Échaudé.

1994 Exhibitions at Galerie Jacob and Galerie Darial (with Véra Pagava).

1995 Solo exhibition at Imprimerie de Cheyne, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, on the occasion of "Lecture sous l'arbre 95".

1996 Solo exhibition at Arrêt sur l'image-Galerie, Bordeaux. "30 years of Galerie Jacob", Galerie Jacob, Paris. All the artists presented and defended by Denise over the past thirty years pay tribute to her.

1999 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris.

Solo exhibition "Œuvres sur papier 1956-1999", collages and oils on paper. Galerie Olivier Nouvellet.

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