The first time we were given to see a work from this CharlElie series, it was like a flash, a thunderbolt, a discharge: in short, obvious. It seemed absolutely necessary to present this work to the gallery.
Singers of modernity, poets of their time, where ailments and words intermingle, CharlElie Couture and Arthur Rimbaud were made to meet. “You have to be absolutely modern. ", Writes Rimbaud, colliding in advance in the life of the painter and singer who, seizing the air and the measure, acts in color to:" Erase time and surf the present. "

The result, all in delicacy and veils of color, lives up to the demands of the model - and of the artist's success: radiant with modernity. Finding the adolescent sought in his memories, CharlElie portrays him in his daily life, a crossed figure at the bend of a street, a juvenile silhouette straddling two worlds, taking up the challenge of bringing back to us the poet who will never be old.
“The world is very big and full of beautiful places that the existence of a thousand men would not be enough to visit. », Rimbaud.

Lucky men that we are, it is a sparkle of this world, with such a special sparkle, that we have discovered and have the honor to present to you: that of CharlElie Couture and his "Rimbauds of today".