Guillaume Lebelle

Guillaume Lebelle was born in 1972 in Paris. He was discovered upon graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1998 by Jean Fournier, with whom he had several solo and group exhibitions alongside Joan Mitchell, James Bishop and Sam Francis. Guillaume then exhibited at Christophe Gaillard until 2014 and collaborates regularly with the Hus gallery.

He composes his works with disparate elements, creating a composite universe where the lyrical gesture on the canvas rubs shoulders with more graphic forms often drawn on paper. The space of circulation between the forms is brought by the white backgrounds which reinforce the dialogue between line and color. From this breathing between the different elements emerges a perfect harmony.

His sensitive line, which suggests, but never imposes, plays with the boundaries of writing, legibility and sketching. The vibrations of his intuitive gesture, both sure and fragile, speak to us of the ephemeral and the intangible, just as the materials used - raw canvas, torn and crumpled paper or recovered elements - evoke a dislocated and unfinished world.

In his paintings, no hierarchy in colors or forms appears at first glance. Our eye travels across the canvas without finding a precise point of anchorage, it is in contemplation that the work reveals itself.