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The French Perspective is an exhilarating survey of contemporary art from France. There are a remarkable variety of styles represented in this exhibition, truly profound works that delve into humanity’s deepest creative roots. Some of these talented artists are tremendous painters and sculptors while others explore experimental techniques and new media. Art lovers will undoubtedly be enamored by this selection of works from our neighbors across the Atlantic.
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Pierre-Louis Acciari
 
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I knew from childhood that I wanted to create in some way, initially due to my love of comic books - growing up in France, I had access to many of the masters of the comic book art, and they have been and still are to this day very important to me and my work, my inspiration. For me, art is my escape. It allows me to deal with my life and conquer my fears, which become transferred onto the canvas and trasmuted into something new and creative. If others can look at my paintings and feel a sense of release, and perhaps even look at life in a different way, than I truly would have accomplished my ultimate artistic dream.
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"Visage 012"
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"Anatomie 01"
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Françoise Amelot
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I grew up near Paris, admiring the forests, the valleys with their small streams, the monuments and small villages that belong to the region. Nowadays, I find my subjects during long promenades during which I seek the soul of the area. For the last thirty years, one of my serious concerns, in art and in life, has been the protection of the environment. The newly polluted landscapes call out to me and shock me. Antoine De Saint Exupéry in said "We do not inherit the earth, we borrow it from the future generations" and this sentiment moves me greatly. In painting, I try to tell part of the history and risks of mankind. But I try to make it clear that the rolling skies, sun and natural life struggling for survival are not without hope.
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"Extravaganza of Monet's Gardens"
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"Résistance"
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Carmenly
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My first creative impulse started with vectorial illustration, which obeys the rules of strict precise details. While studying graphics I became bewitched by colors, I use them to approach or dissimulate my share of melancholy and femininity. Acrylic painting, my new passion, was born in 2006: My works are contemporary and figurative; with objective aesthetics and a perfect harmony of the colors. My main objective is to make each viewer who will be able to appreciate my work vibrate, just like Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Arietti or Jason Brooks knew how to influence me.
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"Tara"
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"Kristina"
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Michel De Caso
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Initially, in the artistic domain, I was voluntarily self-taught. In the beginning I was able to paint for days and days, up to 15 hours a day, without feeling any fatigue. In this first period, I realized that the world of colors was ‘my world’. Even when, later, I followed a course of artistic studies, the joy of physical contact with the colours has never passed away. I believe that this process of self-education which I have undergone has preserved me from a too early conceptualization. The result is that I have always kept the pleasure and the desire to paint, and that I maintained the freedom to look at things in new ways, such as being able to develop Rectoversion.
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"Archetypal Face 3"
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"Enigmatic Face 2"
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FLORA
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All of my pieces are different, because each one includes different experiences, stories and feelings. Yet there is one factor which links all of my work at a fundamental level; the fact that everything I produce is a reflection, on a deep and significant level, of my Being. The difficulty of truly expressing this is a constant challenge which I face when I am in the process of creating, but the privilege of being able to produce the work that I do, and the excitement of the journey of exploration, mean that I am always encouraged and determined to succeed.
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"Eruptives Profusions"
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"L'Interstellaire Océanide"
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David Garcia de las Bayonas
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In this work, I use materials such as concrete, asphalt, aluminum, drippings, bolts, trellis welded wire as well as chrome paint, which offers a good refraction of light. My works on canvas are based on a solid black, which magnifies the silver metal and the different shades of tar. There should be no mistake, if the black and the materials used by the artist are usually cold and rigid, their association here is very bright. The idea is to create compositions of great wealth, which emit an almost hypnotic magnetic force. The subtle use of light in this process is invaluable and essential.
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"11"
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"25"
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Isabelle
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My own language, which I use in art to express myself, is about creating the sensation of movement. I want to explore keeping things moving and develop a spirit of spontaneous, intuitive expression and graphical momentum. I try to find a harmonious unity with bright colours and an aesthetic composition. Listening to music and dancing gives me great inspiration, as do the feelings and emotions of everyday life. I am forever curious, always observing, exploring and uncovering. I allow lines, curves and free forms to set the framework of my paintings. Then everyone who sees them can make up their own story. As regards the "GOWIP" series, about our memory planets, the sense of movement is achieved in one go, without any possible afterthought (as in calligraphy). The background is intentionally left white, representing air, light. Vassili Kandinsky once said : "White strikes like a pause, a hint of nothingness before every beginning."
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"Gowip 240-60"
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"Gowip 101-38"
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Géry Lamarre
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For several years now I have tried by means often unrelated to painting to create works which move, which are not stationary. These works integrate video, wind and various objets, such as fans. Since 2002, while continuing down these experimental paths I have felt the need to return to the senses of sight, smell and touch and to the predominance of gesture over concept. I make use of a technique similar to that of Chinese and Japanese lacquers to produce work which changes according to the position and surroundings of the viewer and the light. The viewer finds themselves captivated and reflected in the picture which acts like a mirror. The meditations on reflections in water which I have had while walking were the starting point of my use of lacquer techniques, whilst the movement of colours and forms lends itself to a tranquil yet dynamic approach.
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"Life's Tree"
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"I Sent You All the Angels"
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Gildas LOYANT
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I have been living in the Caribbean now for about twenty five years, and I am continually surprised and inspired by the colors and mix of body tones that characterize my current home. The result is that I often paint in a realistic style, because it seems to me that when the reality is so marvelous and varied, there is no need to do anything but try as best as possible to capture what I see. I am fortunate that now, after many years of working in advertising, I can now spend much of my time doing what I enjoy the most - painting.
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"Désirade Antilles"
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"Cays Caraïbes"
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Pamela Luchitta
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I have always followed my ideas, my dreams, and I have been very fortunate in having a family who supported me in this. I love my life, with all its variety and richness of colors, sadness and joy, and all of this forms part of my art. In many ways, my work is an autobiography of my life, with its painful or perfect moments and strong emotions. But it also enlivens and enriches my day to day experience, which can be seen to be powerful and magical. Nothing is easy, but it is all worthwhile because it all contributes to who I am, and this in turn influences my artwork.
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"People"
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"Hawaii"
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Hector Marino
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For a long time I had no thoughts of becoming an artist, or moving at all in the artistic world. I was a successful practitioner and teacher of Judo - in fact, I competed internationally. But in 2000 when I came across a Nicolas de Staël painting, and from then everything changed. I had been inspired, and I felt a hidden passion beginning to show itself. At first I was also influenced by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock or Pierre Soulages, but over time I have grown as an artist and I now have a unique style that is all my own. I try to remain internationally relevant - I exhibit in France, Canada and America. I paint mainly with oil and knives, on canvas or wooden, often big sized panels.
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"Tendre Chaos"
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"21 Juillet"
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Thierry Michelet
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When I was a teenager, I was attracted by literature and especially by French poetry. When I was eighteen, I published a collection of poems " Ego ". I thought my destiny was to become a writer, but I soon realized that I could not see where my writing was leading me, but that painting seemed more adapted to my personal sense of creativity. I went to art school, and afterwards took part in successful exhibitions. In spite of their success, I realized that it was real life which would give me the opportunity to meet people, to participate in events. I consider all that much more important for my painting than theory or other artists works. I try to give back to life through my paintings of the things I have seen, and what I think I have understood and the physical emotions of being.
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"Maud 3"
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"Maud 4"
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Musika
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My painting represents for me the means of liberation, the door of the transcendental experiences of life. Art is what best gives shape to an intense internal life, appealing to all of the range of the emotional plain. I am often reminded of a saying of Matisse: "One tone is just a color; two tones are a chord, which is life." Art can be the simple expression of a complex thought, an account of an internal adventure, expressing the movement, line, feature and expression of the beings of the world. In other words to distribute colors in the right way in a space is to distribute energies.
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"Espace-003-(084+086)-G"
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"Espace-005 (082+076) - G"
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Rémi Salin
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I have many international influences and experiences, as travel is an important part of my life and indeed I work as a translator for the UN. Yet I do not feel that my work is based on these factors, nor on things like people or landscapes, but rather comes out of individual emotions and insights. As I get older and acquire more life experience, I feel my painting matures in the sense of being able to convey more convincingly the human emotions and feelings (interrogations and silences, excitements and moments of stillness, etc.) that I seek to put on canvas, the instants of light and darkness that we feel every day and which make up our lives.
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"4"
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"6"
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Tian Shi
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My artworks are part of the international "school" of contemporary art and design, in which paper is seen as the ideal material to delve into existential questions. The paper becomes in fact a theater of shadows in which takes place a strange dance of pencils, brushes and also less conventional materials such as earth, plaster or rope. Made in three dimensions, my artworks should not be considered just as sculptures, but rather as motionless paper dancers only partially displayed, with pieces of their bodies intentionally cropped or covered, revealing my expressive and emotional negotiation of the fragility of life as a kind of graphic butô.
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"New Eve"
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"Nude"
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Gerard Stricher
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My work is generally abstract and my guiding concept is that painting should be primarily concerned with aesthetics. I am a firm believer in the idea that 'beauty will rescue the world' and through my art I hope to contribute to this process. I see the world in colors which feed my emotions, my energy, my breath and my inspiration, just as the natural world and its beauty has done ever since I was a small child. My paintings are like a kind of poem I can see, a poem to give light and enlightenment to people in our complex world.
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"Flying to the Sea"
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"Sevilla"
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