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ARMANDON - POLARIS

ARMANDON – POLARIS

15 rue des Arquebusiers, 75003 Paris, Tel : 00 33 1 42 72 21 27
September 4 - October 15, 2021
https://www.galeriepolaris.fr/

First solo exhibition at Polaris Gallery of the artist Etienne Armandon, my family, will present a set of paintings and drawings made between January 2020 and June 2021.

On the paintings made with oil, Etienne Armandon stripes the paint, as if it were plowed, violently, showing the successive layers that the artist affixed on the canvas for many months.

The brushstrokes are generous, the artist maltreats the canvas as much as he can.

The scenes and themes represented from literary texts or current events are pushed to an extreme limit between figuration and abstraction. In this work that one might believe to be a simple abstract representation of the painting, gradually appears to our eyes the subjects that compose and recompose the scene played out before us. Played because Etienne Armandon approaches the painting as a theater scene, he first calls for the decor, then the light, then the actors, and finally the text.

 

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