Montée Capillaire, 2026
GABAN  

Painting : acrylic · 100 x 100 x 2 cm 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

€4,380 4 380 €
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Painting : Unique artwork

Condition

Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

with stretcher frame

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Signature

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Dimensions ( cm • inch )

100 x 100 x 2 cm 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

103 x 103 x 4 cm 40.6 x 40.6 x 1.6 inch

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Description

1 - Description of the work

"Capillary Ascent" unfolds on a white linen left largely free, where the paint organizes itself into an architecture of drips. Networks of black threads, taut and branched, traverse the entire height of the canvas, while violet nappes — from lavender to deep purple — extend into suspended drops. On the right, a large vertical taupe-gray panel, laid with a knife, brings a mineral density to the perceptible grain; brown and bronze drips, shiny, traverse it. Above, fine white lines, almost imperceptible, weave a second network that is only revealed in grazing light. The drips visibly obey gravity, and yet the eye travels upward: from drop to thread, from thread to branching, the composition is read from bottom to top, like sap.

 2 - Critical analysis

An expression among the most refined of Dormances & Résurgences, the work captures the moment when buried energy begins to circulate. It rests on three reversals: • Gravity vs. ascent: what flows downwards draws, for the gaze, an ascent; the paint reverses the physical law as a metaphor. • Retention vs. intensity: the restricted palette — black, violet, taupe, white — concentrates the tension instead of dispersing it. • Visible vs. latent: the white network on white reminds that the essential often works beneath the threshold of perception. "Capillary Ascent" borrows from scientific vocabulary an elementary phenomenon to make it a meditation on slow and irresistible transmission.

3 - Artistic and spiritual perspective

3.1 - In the work of GABAN The work marks the threshold of the Persistence period. Where Patience of stems questions the time of maturation and where the diptych Lands in reserve explores the fecundity of spaces left in waiting, Capillary Ascent attaches to the precise moment when force begins to move. Violet, counterpoint to green in Chlorophyllian Vibration, reappears in it pure and associated with black: a subtle thread thus links Convergence to Persistence.

3.2 - Artistic parentage The drips governed by weight refer to a painting that lets the color, poured rather than placed, trace its own path on the canvas. The branched black threads, between writing and organism, join the tradition of gestural writings, where the line tries to seize a movement before it solidifies into a sign; it becomes circulation here.

3.3 - Spiritual resonance: A very old adage states that "what is below is like what is above." The canvas offers a sensitive illustration of this: the drop that descends and the sap that rises originate from the same movement. Capillarity becomes the symbol of a patient transmission — that of knowledge, of experience, of memory — which never proceeds through rupture, but through slow and continuous impregnation.

 4 - Strengths of the work —

Conclusion A refined and graphic composition, of great elegance. A restricted palette — black, violet, taupe, white — in accord with contemporary interiors. A hidden network, white on white, that reveals itself according to the light. A pivotal work, which opens the Persistence period.

Abstract

Abstract art

Beige

Purple

GABAN, Montée Capillaire

GABAN

France

Presentation

GABAN is the name of a tight wing beat. 

a breath that is no longer stifled. A vibration that imposes its necessity. Painter of pure emotion and living matter, GABAN emerges late, but with the certainty of being, finally, where everything converges. 

Descended from a lineage of artists – grandson of Maxime Pierre André Verdier, painter and professor at the Beaux-Arts, and son of Michel Verdier, pathologist and leatherworker – GABAN carries in his veins the memory of gestures, the rigor of the gaze, and the freedom of pigments. But it is outside the academies that his work takes shape. A few courses, quickly abandoned. The essential is elsewhere: in the clash of colors, the visceral drive of the gesture, the tension between surface and depth. Never copy reality. Pierce it. Feel it. Invent it. With GABAN, emotion prevails over figuration, texture over line.  His studios, in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, are sanctuaries. On one side a setting built for her by her partner, where the silent metamorphosis of an demanding and exposed Parisian life takes place, towards an inner fertility. There, the Ithaque house park unfolds its infinite palette of greens, ochres, wet shadows. Nature is not a source of inspiration: it is a matrix, a partner, a living double. On the other, his Parisian studio where the reflections of the sun on the Parisian rooftops are as many mirrors of souls, fertile ground for his creations. GABAN, a name chosen with poise by a woman who fully embraces herself but refuses assignments. Ambition is not gendered: to become a great artist, to sell his works during his lifetime, to exist in matter and in the market. That the art history is predominantly masculine is not a constraint, it is a field to reinvent. Appearing in painting in 2013 in a moment of assumed fracture with conventions and self-censorship, GABAN enters creation by breaking through. His period “EMERGENCE" (2013-2017) is dense, mineral, tumultuous. The canvases bear the stigmas of excess, of inner chaos, of flaws as much as of the will to extract oneself. The material is raw, sometimes black, incised, like scorched earth still smoking. Since 2025, a new era is taking hold: the period “CONVERGENCE", oriented towards calming, acceptance, openness. The colors broaden, the forms breathe, the gestures lighten without ever losing intensity. GABAN no longer seeks: GABAN is. And each canvas says it with elegance and power. GABAN does not paint to adorn, but to speak. To speak the dazzling beauty of the living, the subterranean struggles of the soul, and that quest for an always unstable balance between demand, freedom, and humanity.

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