14AV8A-2014, 2014
Painting : gouache · 65.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm 25.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€4,944
4 944 €
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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65.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm 25.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Born in 1941, Alain Clément is a prominent figure in French contemporary abstraction. Working between Nîmes and Paris, the painter, sculptor, and printmaker has dedicated decades to investigating the interplay between colour, space, and volume.
After studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and training in printmaking at the historic Atelier 17 in Paris,Clément developed an approach where the flatness of the canvas is in constant dialogue with the physical weight of sculpture. While his compositions display an immediate gestural vitality, they are grounded in rigorous structural architecture. Clément's work is represented in major public and private collections, including a major donation to the Centre Pompidou.
In his works on paper, Alain Clément harnesses the rich, matte opacity of gouache to explore his signature dialogue between form, volume, and space with a profound sense of immediacy. Unlike the dense, edge-to-edge architecture of his canvases, these compositions utilize the unpainted white of the paper as an active, luminous spatial element. This negative space breathes light into the bold, interlocking ribbons and sweeping shapes, enhancing the dynamic tension on the surface.
Executed with confident, fluid brushstrokes, the gouache translates Clément's physical energy directly onto the page. Whether utilizing vibrant, interlocking palettes (as seen in his 2022 series) or stark, contrasting gestures (as in his earlier 2014 and 2016 pieces), these works offer an intimate glimpse into the artist's spatial thinking. They perfectly bridge the spontaneous freedom of drawing with the structural weight of his larger paintings and steel sculptures.
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Born in 1941, Alain Clément lives and works in Nîmes and Paris, France.
The uniqueness of Alain Clement's work lies in the close relationship that he establishes between painting and sculpture, a relationship enriched by printmaking, a medium he is particularly keen on.
Like drawing, printmaking allows him to clarify his research related to space through an attention to the accuracy of his lines. The paradox in this exercise is the fact that two-dimensional space - the sheet of paper or the canvas - becomes a field of experimentation for sculpture. When Alain Clement was working on reliefs on murals, he was speaking of color in connection to the volumes, and color disrupted the plane. Today, he still assigns this role to painting, but it's more about its graphic dimension.
His strokes, lines, ribbons and frames organize the space, they deny it, force it, dig holes in it, in a profuse body of work, that exceeds formal issues and affirms the expressive and polysemous power of painting.
The uniqueness of Alain Clement's work lies in the close relationship that he establishes between painting and sculpture, a relationship enriched by printmaking, a medium he is particularly keen on.
Like drawing, printmaking allows him to clarify his research related to space through an attention to the accuracy of his lines. The paradox in this exercise is the fact that two-dimensional space - the sheet of paper or the canvas - becomes a field of experimentation for sculpture. When Alain Clement was working on reliefs on murals, he was speaking of color in connection to the volumes, and color disrupted the plane. Today, he still assigns this role to painting, but it's more about its graphic dimension.
His strokes, lines, ribbons and frames organize the space, they deny it, force it, dig holes in it, in a profuse body of work, that exceeds formal issues and affirms the expressive and polysemous power of painting.
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