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LLH 0106
2006
Gérard Traquandi
Painting
230 x 160 cm
Medium: paint
Neither completely abstract nor trulyrepresentative, Gérard Traquandi’s work is a constant paradox caught betweenthe two realities of painting and actual existence. Fascinated by Cézanne and Monet and an enthusiastic admirerof Rothko, he has rethought Action Painting and investigated representation,keeping his distance from faithful. Gérard Traquandi uses motifs that mayeither be a picture from his memory or a reinterpretation of the imagepreviously provided by art history : plantlike or mineral forms, mountains orclouds, prints of fruit or waterlilies. From baroque scrolls to arabesques, hisstrange painted volutes draw the gaze into their meandering patterns.
Lives and works in Marseille and Paris.
Gérard Traquandi’s work is based on paradox as his universe lies somewhere between abstraction and realism. He uses abstraction to represent the real world, and moves away from an accurate likeness in favour of a sensorial approach.
The inspiration for his designs comes from nature, for example stones or flowers, and never from manufactured products. He then paints moving, driving masses, sliding one over the other, in his primary quest to “fight inertia”.
The result is a canvas which invokes sensations linked to the beauty of nature such as density, light and abundance.
Gérard Traquandi is a graduate of the Marseille School of Fine Arts, and has taught at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-arts de Marseille, the Ecole d’Architecture de Marseille and the Ecole d’art de Nîmes.
Artwork of
Gérard Traquandi
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