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As a French artist, since eight years, I enjoy living and working
in Amsterdam. I experience this city, where my work is exhibited
regularly, as a great source of inspiration. I call myself an
autodidact. |
| I started my life as a painter several years after my studies at the university. My first exhibition, held at the Thérèse Roussel-Gallery in Perpignan, France in 1986 marked the start of a development as a painter in which friends and collegue- painters helped me. During this formation period I worked with different artists; some of whom were formed by the 'classic' tradition and others who were avant-garde. This resulted in a strong desire to create a 'personal' art, apart from currents or fashions, giving free way to an 'individual adventure'. |
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| The themes I use are traditional ones, like portrait and landscape. They help me to express myself and to emphasize my aim: exploring painting. Through the portrait of a friend, through a Dutch landscape, changing by the season, the magic of painting interesses me most: colour-light-texture-movement-composition. As soon as Poetry, emotion or even consideration result from this magic, I feel my work is not totally vain. |
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| The use of different techniques (oil, acrylic, India ink, charcoal) and different supports (paper, canvas, carton) enables me to emphasize my sensibility. From expressionist in the beginning, it developed into a more lyrical direction with a liking for abstract and minimal art; it is because I wish to express more, using less. Also the monumental is having an important place in my approach; space is fundamental in the perception of my paintings: not only space inside the work, but also space necessary to create distance. |
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D.F.M. Vidal |
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