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Even today, the most distracted associate Fran\u00e7ois Boisrond with his youthful style of figuration libre, the last French artistic movement. A stigma of his passage through the anti-painting years in France (1986-2008) to persevere in his practice, in a slow evolution. He has not settled into a falsely naive style, personal subjects and charming malfeasance, but has assumed over time, with confidence and humility, a know-how. How to remain innocent and fresh in a career spanning over forty years? By replaying his painting in the light of Art History, by allowing himself to be contaminated by greater demands, finer plastic effects, broader themes - in short, by leaving an intimate world for the common world of reality. Among other things, he has portrayed Paris in its contemporaneity, archived the spectacle of the various Venice Biennales from afar, and more recently reconstructed scenes from the lives of saints. With his first solo show at Galerie Ma\u00efa Muller, Fran\u00e7ois Boisrond now presents a series of some twenty landscape paintings based around engineering structures, those vast architectural gestures simply enthroned in their environment: from the Eiffel Tower to the Millau Viaduct, from the Pont de Normandie to the Avoriaz ski resort. The compositions are simple and frontal: a promotional leaflet offered on a Normandy train served as the model for his paintings of Mont-Saint-Michel, for example. The starting point is as modest as the refined execution, Boisrond has let himself be impacted by the arrival of digital technology in his work. Since the 2000s, he has been painting from photographs, more precisely from Photoshop. He dissects his source image by means of a self-designed script, preparing a battle plan for the construction of the painting, from the backgrounds of colored grays to the dancing highlights of the final strokes. The painter's economy, solidly underpinned by assiduous drawing practice, is particularly effective in his treatment of distant subjects: the horizon of overhanging Parisian buildings, large gestures of vibrating water around Mont-Saint-Michel, or the shrouds of the Pont de Normandie subtly detached from the Seine estuary. He also doesn't hesitate to transpose digital noise into his painting, with its bluish or purplish iridescence of pixels, while his touches of translucent matter on a white background recall the backlit image of the screen. It's a well-known challenge of painting treatises: not to sacrifice the whole to detail. Up close, his style is free, dancing, heterogeneous and full of plastic shortcuts that are sometimes blurred, while from afar, the visual coherence refers to a universe where the distinction between the natural world and that of artifice is no longer relevant. As artist Marie-Claire Mitout describes it, \u00abeverything touches\u00bb, and all elements remain connected. And despite subjects as worrying as a nuclear power plant, a motorway interchange or Notre-Dame under construction - all major human gestures that make up the landscape and, why not, threaten it - it is indeed a sense of calm, serenity and unchanging confidence in reality as it is that emerges from these paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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