admin1037Articles – by Lucie Vuillerme – Le Bien Public – Quartier Libre weekly supplement – La vie des arts section – December 2-8, 2005 – Issue no. 266, p.17.
An exhibition filled with emotions at the Isselin Gallery, where Vincent Verdeguer, focusing on the theme of Spain, evokes moments of stunning aesthetic intensity.
An exhibition filled with emotions at the Isselin Gallery, where Vincent Verdeguer, focusing on the theme of Spain, evokes moments of stunning aesthetic intensity.
Vincent Verdeguer’s paintings unfold like clouds, suddenly parting to reveal a landscape. The contrast between the vaporous masses and the sharpness of the lines is achieved here through the density of the paint combined with the smooth surface of photography.
These photographic insertions in the canvas, which the artist likes to call “grafts,” allude to the living world. For Verdeguer, who was initially an abstract painter, the intervention of photography allows for a connection with others thanks to its immediately accessible realism. Painting, on the other hand, enables “embodiment”: at the point where materials intersect, the artwork comes to life. The theme of Spain, the artist’s country of origin, has thus given flesh to forgotten roots, childhood memories that have risen within him like molten lava.
