Guillaume Lavigne

Painter and engraver, Guillaume Lavigne lives and works in Paris. Portraits of clothes, text by Grégoire De Gaulle Guillaume Lavigne paints clothes like others paint portraits. Portraits of clothes so to speak. In some cases, their former owner looks for traces, memory, wear and tear that he may have left there. But in his approach, nothing systematic. The clothing that protects, dresses or sometimes adorns the body is delivered to us without artifice, devoid of its function. The paintings of these clothes become the clothes of his painting. The fabric of the garment blends into the fabric of the support, changing the abandoned jacket into an image that challenges the eye and questions our unconscious. From his jacket which still seems wet by the Breton spray to the jackets of uniforms full of stories, Guillaume Lavigne delivers an intimate and evocative painting, both modest and eloquent. A painting as a means of poetically inhabiting the world.