Philippe Fangeaux

A graduate of the Marseille Art School, resident at the Villa Medici in Rome for 1 year (1997/1998), he has been a teacher at the Pyrenees School of Art (Pau-Tarbes) for about twenty years. years.Philippe Fangeaux is a major artist of the regional but also national art scene.
Philippe Fangeaux's paintings are easy to approach at first. But quickly, the spectator ends up sinking on a pit of incomprehension, when he tries to grasp the logic of the scenes which are offered to him. Because the random configuration of sequences extracted from personal memories, images taken from everyday life, magazines, television, or the internet, the absence of narration, the distortion of perspectives, and a clever cocktail of techniques drawn from the history of painting as in an infinite tote bag of manners, baffles the viewer.
“The image is a paradoxical vector of meaning, capable of simultaneously proposing a large amount of information but which, devoid of a system allowing it to be organized, like the syntactic structure of language, presents a high degree of ambiguity (. ..). The non-hierarchization of information, which favors the simultaneity of visual perception, is also the trait which hinders the intelligibility of the message. »André Gunthert, Historian of visual cultures.
Each painting by Philippe Fangeaux is a pictorial ecosystem, an endogenous plastic universe, born from a rupture, a story to be recomposed by oneself according to one's own personal history.