Jame Saurel

"Jame SAUREL is a painter, in the way I like to say. His work seems to unravel this thread which connects the very distant past to the present. The work touches our hearts, without cheating, without any imposture. Everywhere deafens the red. But of these reds which are composed of pigments that nature offers to its sons as an inheritance; ocher of earth, brown of roots, powders of crushed stones. On these crimson vibratory fields in graphic superpositions, windows appear open on what demarcates the secret garden of the artist. Art as a revealer of the sensitive. It is Africa which calls us and which speaks to us through the mystery of the painter's voice. This Africa which is never very far away and which offers a beautiful range of emotions, in the secret of a language with sincere intonations. In the body of the expression, there is a sometimes rock writing, a sort of alphabet from the depths of the being, which expresses a form of exile, as if to bring another look to the abstract environment which frames it. The hypnotic effect of color is materialized by the result of a tribute paid to ROTHKO - another painter of the red night - a few years earlier. As we carry our cross, Jame SAUREL takes color to the paroxysm of human limits. This frontal frankness brings us back to apprehending our vulnerability, faced with the dimension of the enigma that painting confers, through its different codes. It is not forbidden to lean beyond!
Literary abstraction would be the term that I would happily use to define this work which opens onto a real ideological approach: the non-tranquility of being and its positive consequences."
Mylène VIGNON Art Historian - Art Critic