Olivier Legrand takes his enthusiasts for a walk in a special world, between reality and dreams. A table or a board truly invites us into its work and to consider this representation of the object as coming from our own daily life. However Olivier Legrand does not stage his objects in their domestic familiarity, each one stands out from a bare background, painted in green brown tones, inspired by the chiaroscuro technique. The light coming from the right of the canvas which models the object, prompts us to wonder about the place and the meaning that we can give to these sometimes precious auxiliaries of our daily life. Olivier Legrand is part of a tradition that poses the same insistent question, that of the object. Like a 17th century still life, the inanimate object, arranged by the artist's hand, becomes autonomous, as if suspended in time. At that time, it was the skulls, musical instruments, mirrors, baskets of flowers and fruits that locked the viewer into the silent world of things. With the painter Olivier Legrand, these are objects of our daily existence (a decanter, a bowl, a box, a can of oil). While Duchamp, by his only declaration, has transformed certain objects into a work of art, Olivier Legrand subscribes to pictorial fidelity and, to truly stage them, takes over the codes and techniques of great painting. of the golden age of Flemish painting. He reinvents this painting at a time when we are perpetually seeking to push back the limits of the artistic field. Always heir to this Flemish tradition, but at the service of an almost photographic representation of the objects he selects, Olivier Legrand makes his own colors in his workshop, using natural pigments bought in Holland. Of course, Olivier Legrand's work is a synthesis between modern hyperrealist painting and Dutch and Caravaggio traditions, which makes him a unique artist, both anachronistic and visionary.