About the Artist ! 'D.F.M. Vidal'

Words from the artist;

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'.

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.

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.

D.F.M. Vidal

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