Sauvage rouage, 2025

Pierre Touron  

For the past ten years, Pierre Touron has chosen drawing, nothing but drawing. He initially oriented and developed his work towards a dreamlike and poetic figuration.
More recently, abstraction has made its way into his work, or more precisely, re-entered it. Indeed, his artistic production has always unfolded in a back-and-forth between figuration and abstraction, in the most diverse forms and techniques:
"It is my interest in composition that leads me to forget the subject in order to explore, with greater freedom, the interplay of forms, solids, voids, light, shadows, etc." Pierre Touron constructs and deconstructs all at once. Between order and chaos, he creates spaces and traces paths, fragile and random: kaleidoscopic patterns, imaginary archaeologies, palimpsest landscapes, polygraphic scores… sometimes very dense and labyrinthine, sometimes more refined.
"I improvise while controlling, I shake up what appears to me as too perfect, too adjusted, in order to reintroduce the unexpected..." It is with great care and meticulousness that the artist gives form to his drawings.
These are his most recent works that are offered here (graphite on satin watercolor paper, sometimes with additions in blue pencil).
Some recent exhibitions:
2025 - "Blacks and Blues" Cécile Dufay Gallery, Paris 15th
2024 - "Drawing Draw" 8th edition, Galerie N5 Montpellier
2023 - Several solo and group exhibitions in the Bordeaux region
2022 - "Drawings from Here" group exhibition, Fabrique POLA Bordeaux
"Illustradays" International Illustration Fair Athens
2021 - “Le Imamagini delle Fantasia" Stepan Zavrel Foundation Sàrmede Italy
Edition: 2022 "The Dripping Children" illustration of the short stories by G Hiking
- ed Script
2024 “Traveling Device on Bernard Manciet" illustrations and
Graphic design - Landes Archives