Discover the unpublished works of the artist Julien Calot in his personal exhibition, "Passengers" at the Galerie Claire Corcia.
“We are a bit of a passenger in our own lives. As if time and the flow of life decide for us and take us in their whirlpools. I have long, in the past, tried to "control the path" and change the direction of the current, until I struggled and exhausted myself, to finally discover, recently, the immense joy of just being carried away, and to savor the sensations of every moment », writes Julien Calot.
Through a superb coherent set of forty acrylic paintings on canvas of medium and large formats, we witness an explosion of life, the spectacle of an exuberant nature, a poetic refinement, flying fish, whirlpools birds and dreamy and enigmatic characters who float with serenity in large colored spaces, like the '' passengers '' of a luminous dream. For those who have followed Julien Calot's work for a long time, his intense and intact joy of painting and his boundless energy are still there. But the artist has matured. The joy is more measured, almost intimate, mysterious, disturbing: an inner well-being, calm, radiates.
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