Julien Saro

Julien Saro, self-taught artist lives and works at Fontaine.

"Eruption, colors that flash and cover the canvas with a painting that has become writing, hieroglyphics exalting legends, characters from ancient Greece from the pre-Colombian world, from the Comedia del Arte, from the zodiac ...

Signs, hallucinatory bestiaries or sneak past owls (sacred animals), reptiles, hybrid birds that look like pterodactyls, chameleons for color ...

An often stone-colored background embroidered with a scattering of red spots, dreams of Inca or Aztecs temples reviewed by a colorist from Casamance.

These works emanate an intense sensation of life, of feverishness to create and communicate.

Spasmodic painter, warm and total conviction when his way of speaking with yet more strange pieces or representative of an immense work to come... This is the case of unconscious type encounters: there is more mystery, questions… But if the hand seems to be less feverish in front of what remains to be discovered of the great enigma of the world of painting by approaching surrealism, we can imagine a fascinating future."

Text by Jacques Ducret writer & art critic