Michel Duport

Always "without leaving the picture" (D; Abensour in catalog Painted bronzes 1992 1993) MD has developed in the space of the wall where, traditionally, the picture hangs, painted volume devices. From the end of the Eighties, as for example for the reception rooms of the hotel of region of Montpellier carried out with JM Wilmotte or the order of the Chartreuse of Valbonne, the wall also took part in the composition of the "painting. ". By multiplying the painted surfaces and viewing angles, MD affirms that painting must, in order to be still an active medium, offer the viewer a system of vision, almost a behavior, as in the rebirth, where the painter, through the play of point of perspective vanishing, assigned the front position of the spectator in relation to the painting. MD is attached to the way of depositing color on geometric constructions. To paint is to offer color as an emotion, polychromy as a series of monochromes which would be associated in the volume of the painting, of the architecture. The painting bursts into the space of the wall as if to make an image of its lost unity, without nostalgia, but without losing the thread that connects all painters.