Nature Insoumise
Lyon From April 1, 2023 to July 30, 2023
Presentation
“My family history was interrupted and its roots lost during the Second World War. So, I strive to create a world of expression and impressions of the original landscape using the reminiscences that surface at the edge of my consciousness. This absent identity and this interrupted story, without which memory is lost, can only be represented confusedly in limited spaces, but with ideas that are very open to all pictorial forms and also very abstract like color projections, flat of materials, lines and traces to capture the eye with a landscape narrative which is the principle of identity. Denis Guffroy's painting is totally improvised, as is the case with many painters, and his work, repeated in series, on colors, light and form aims to generate a kind of catalog of an unsubdued nature. and almost virgin imagined to compensate for this lack of deep territorial roots and to create a link of continuity with this broken family history. The painting thus becomes a sum of informal and emotional gestures beyond which a new narrative begins.
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Denis Guffroy
France