Monolithes, 2025

Jean Christophe Stauder  

Jean-Christophe Stauder is a painter born in 1969. He lives in Troyes (France). He developed a taste for art and in particular black and white photography very early on. He began researching light and composition that would lay the foundations for his future work as a painter. His interest in the artistic world led him to work for about fifteen years as a journalist, editor and photographer, particularly specializing in the cultural sector. At the same time, he continued to experiment and express his inspiration through different mediums: drawing, Indian ink, watercolor, tempera, gouache, etc.

It was his meeting two years ago with Gilbert Wolfisberg, painting professor and creator of the Art-quarium gallery in Geneva (Switzerland), which allowed him to acquire new tools for a more constructed pictorial composition based, in particular, on the golden ratio, in a dynamic approach combining harmony and movement.

Since then, his favorite medium has been oil painting. His works are permeated by rhythms and vibrations; they invite you to move around all parts of the canvas in a choice of warm color palette.

His favorite themes are movement, energy, dance, music, nature, symbolism, mythology… Placing his work in his time, he conceives his activity as a painter as an artistic action likely to contribute to fueling the debate, or even to shake up consciences. His artistic approach is presented as follows:

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He conceives his works as rituals that draw the viewer into a ceremony in which he himself is a co-actor. The latter himself participates in the painting that is renewed with each reading.

As the painters Jean Metzinger and Mark Rothko pointed out, the painting is a living organism, a closed world that lives in itself and acts on the one who apprehends it. Like Ulysses' Odyssey, it creates a narrative with a beginning, a journey, a circulation in a universe and an end, a return. The painting thus opens up an infinite space and time. It possesses this universality that makes one mute. The work does without words and acts without words.

A bit like a magic object, a talisman object. On the board to act as a medicine that will work purgation, purification. A form of exorcism.

An unconquered sun that will be reborn with each new dawn, dispelling the darkness without a struggle in its path and spreading its gentle warmth over Men.

Exhibitions

Group exhibition in France and on the island of Gorée - Senegal - 1998

Exhibition as part of the concert evening at La Piscine de Pel-et-Der (Aube) - April 15, 2023

Hair salon - Troyes (Aube) - May 2023 to July 2023

- Troyes (Aube) - June to September 2024

Winter Salon - GalerieReims (Marne) - November to December 2024