Since when have things been negotiable?
This question with its air of an injunction, provides the title of the exhibition by Jérôme Boutterin at the ESAD Valence. On this occasion the artist will present a collection of paintings that were begun in 2007, monochrome paintings, with Martin Engler writing:“Though “monochromes” only use one, unmixed colour, what they represent, however, is anything but a uniform monochrome surface. The apparently intact composition reveals itself to be a maze of a number of layers of fragmentary abbreviations, a void horror of painting, an inexhaustible reserve of possibilities, in which the gesture is lost in the all- over. In a calculated process, that is at the same time intoxicated by itself, the gestures are placed one after the other.”*
RV O2, 2008, huile sur toile, 220 x 160 cm, © Jérôme Boutterin
OB 02, 2008, 200 x 160 cm, © Jérôme Boutterin
*Extracts from a text by Martin Engler, “L'insoutenable légèreté de la peinture de Jérôme Boutterin" in the "aus der la Main" catalogue, galerie Andrieu, Berlin. Martin Engler is in charge of the "l'art après 1945" section of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
