"Intranquille Amour"

From 13 October to 01 December 2007
Born in 1972 in Hassakeh, Syria. Self-taught, Sabhan Adam began painting at the age of 17. He is also interested in philosophy, poetry, and sociology. In 1999, he lived at the Cité Internationale...
Picture - On the side to other
Philippe Aïni
Philippe Aïni, a most particular artist, explores the meaning of life in an overwhelming use of color and form. In a chaotic, pictorial big bang, he reveals the fusion of matter and flesh in an...
Lydie Arickx - Available works
Born in 1954 in Seine et Marne, France In full control of her art, Lydie is equally at ease with very large formats as with minute compositions. She was made to take part in titanic fights, which...
Picture - Coucou c'est moi
Petrus De Man
A very gifted draftsman, Petrus de Man is able to grasp in a few strokes the core of a subject matter, of a situation. His compositions, apparently simple are in fact the result of a very accurate...
Picture - Mond Lichtbild
Norbert Eberle - Available works
Representation, abstraction, Norbert Eberle goes from one to the other, like his does from one media to the other: paper, canvas, photography… where he inscribes his perception of the world in...
Picture - Bed
Thomas Fougeirol - Available works
The tonality of this artist is generous, expressing powerfully the volcanic nature of his imaginary landscapes, or suggesting in his restraints and fragility the endless suffering of emptiness...
Louise Giamari
In her sculpture, Louise Giamari makes tangible the bonds that tie vegetable and animal to the vast realm of the living in nature. Her creatures have the gift of nothingness because they belong to a...
Picture - Couple of tetabras turned out of the heaven
Lionel Guibout - Available works
His passion for ancient Greece allowed him to discover a world of lyricism somewhat baroque, freeing a considerable creative energy. He translates in his own words parts of the Greek (and not only)...
Picture - Apocrifo II
José Hernandez - Available works
Spanish painter. José Hernandez displays a Baroque imagery in his paintings and drawings, mingling life and death with golds, which might appear as decadent but which is in fact the ultimate vanity...
Marcel Katuchevski - Available works
The paintings of Marcel Katuchevski reveal a unique inner world made of moving arborescence, suggesting the trembling presence of memories. Ours? In 1972, Marcel Katuchevski discovered the works of...
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Richard Laillier - Available works
Using only black chalk, it is by erasing it from the board or paper that fragments of body appear, giving them a particle of life, taken from black oblivion, like Orpheus ripping out his spouse from...
Michel Macréau (1935-1995) began his career as an illustrator in the Vallauris pottery studios. In the late 1950s, he moved into an old, uninhabited château in the Chevreuse valley near Paris, where...
Maryan’s short life (1927-1977) was marked by tragedy. A Polish Jew, he was captured and tortured by the Nazis. He was the only member of his family to survive, narrowly escaping death in a...
Picture - Loving machines
Mario Murua - Available works
Social and political issues are never absent from the dreamlike, almost surreal world of this painter; the warm tonalities he uses reflect his perception of human reality in a unique personal...
Picture - La Poltrona rossa II
Zoran Music - Available works
Imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp that Zoran Music, in the fear of death, is overwhelmed by the frenzy of drawing the "shadows" of his fellow inmates. After the war, he paints hazy...
Michel Nedjar - Available works
Nedjar’s dolls send us back to a dark secret, to the wise of what certain people still instist on calling the “primitives”. These exhumed beings, made of worned-out clothes and other heterogeneous...
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Max Neumann - Available works
His intertwining paintings are made of absence. In stead of the lines that are supposed to delimit a face, it is in fact compose of forms and colors. By their juxtaposition, these painting tell parts...
Picture - His sky
Although struck by muscular dystrophy and nailed down to a wheel chair since the age of 23, Nitkowski painted both on canvas and on paper a tremendous hymn to life, full of violence and dazzling...
Picture - Last extasy
Guy Oberson - Available works
Born in 1960 in Switzerland.The work of Guy Oberson is one of slow unveiling. He layers lines of charcoal, pencil and chalk to reveal the intimate, yet universal, parts of the self. The movement of a...
Humberto Poblete-Bustamante - Available works
Born in 1966 in Santiago in Chili.In a video, we see the artist dancing frenetically to rock music before he begins to paint.  All the energy he calls upon beforehand later becomes a part of the...
Marcel Pouget was born in 1923 in Oran, and died in 1985. Originally an abstract expressionist, Marcel Pouget played a major part in launching the Nouvelle Figuration movement at the end of the 1950'...
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Lanfranco Quadrio - Available works
When we see a work of Quadrio's, we immediately think of the Renaissance and of the great masters such as da Vinci and Dürer. Quadrio reaches a vertiginous perfection and composes a hallucinating...
Picture - Frog
Paul Rebeyrolle - Available works
Born in 1926, this self taught very independent character held his first show in 1951. Member of the French communist party in 1953, he lets go of it in 1956 after the Hungary uprisings. By 1968, his...
Hartmut Riederer - Available works
An artist, a poet and a philosopher, Hartmut Riederer does not underestimate the childish part remaining in any which creator; he build a interior world of great purity. His many skills enduce him...
Helmut Rieger - Available works
(1931 - 2014)German painter, born in Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia). Having fled the bombings at the end of the war, Helmut’s family moved to Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria, where he spent his childhood....
Picture - Dolls
Sophie Rocco
Sophie Rocco, a wandering and rebellious painter, collected worldwide scanty scraps and bits of things that she brought back in order to recreate a whole universe starting from scratch. Peat, rust,...
Jean Rustin - Available works
Though he was at first an abstract painter, since 1971 Jean Rustin has been painting an incredible series of portraits of his fellow humans. Lost in deserted rooms, these figures at times indulge in...
Christine Sefolosha
Christine SefoloshaBorn 1955, Switzerland.Fiction, vision, fable, Christine Sefolos seems to have the power to convoque the presence of spirtis on the canvas. She gives them bodies with stunning...
Picture - Body
Vladimir Velickovic - Available works
Vladimir Velickovic is well aware that nothing can exorcize the potency of horror and violence, weather past or present, he summons them in his pictures, at times onto his huge canvases. He depicts...