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Hugues Gillet

France

Biography

"Hugues Gillet undertook, through his painting, to give a material form, objectified, exteriorized to his personal universe. Half-plant, half-animal figurations populate lush landscapes or smooth horizons in the colors of scorched earth, like so many nightmares revealed on the canvas. Then he combines human forms, impassive, hieratic faces, with other vegetable and mineral kingdoms, to give shape to new terrible visions, to revisit ancient legends and myths or to witness the contemporary world These hybridizations, disturbing as they may seem to us, are familiar to us, resulting from a long artistic tradition of representation of the surreal and the supernatural, and weave, over the paintings, the stages of the artist's metaphysical quest and his particular poetry Under a classic and figurative style, Hugues Gillet, perfectionist artist, offers for those who want to see well, one of these "possible worlds" of which have Paul Klee .... "

Nationality

French artists

Themes

Nude, Black and white, Animal