Vincent Beaurin
dal 11/1/2012 al 24/2/2012
Segnalato da
11/1/2012
Vincent Beaurin
Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
Using rudimentary resources such as polystyrene, resin, coloured sands, a scraper made by himself, and some blades, Beaurin produces radical, often hypnotic works which he always wants to be soothing.
Since his exhibition in Paul Cézanne’s studio in Aix en Provence during summer 2010 and the
simultaneous presentation of “Du prisme cézanien” (Fondation Ricard, Paris), colour has become one of
the main developments in his works.
Vincent Beaurin creates his exhibitions as if they were landscapes.
Each piece of work is positioned in the space, in the same way as the many different places which
compose a landscape. They attract and produce an effect that, due to its unusual quality, some have called
aura. This radiance is more consistent with gravity and electromagnetic force. A place can be distinctive
in such a way as to stand out by its presence alone.
Under harsh light, Vincent Beaurin combines entropic atmospheric-coloured volumes, as if they were
calcified, with a glorious goddess of ancient Egypt: Bastet.
While many artists have referred to the work of Eugène Chevreul Law of the Simultaneous Contrast of
Colors ever since it was released in 1839 (Robert Delaunay used to sign the Simultaneous), Vincent
Beaurin also freely refers to Goethe and his Theory of Colors published in 1810, and more specifically to
the chapter on physiological colours, the ones that the eye produces after being stimulated by an image or
by simple pressure on the eyelid.
« The blue of the sky reveals to us the fundamental law of colour. » J.W Goethe, Theory of colours, 2 nd
éd., Paris, Triades, 1980, page 59.
In other words, observation is the best source of inspiration !
« Colours have a shadow. This shadow contains them all, and the colours are active in it. Each colour
turns into a moving spectrum. I play on reversals and commutations. At times the shadow is more
significant than the visible colour. Likewise, the mass or inside of a statue is a chasm. We call a complex
colour, those that can be made by a mixture of a part of the three main zones of the chromatic circle,
toned down. This is to ignore what wells up in it. Often, a bright colour is on call, suspended at the centre
of a depression enriched by alteration.» V. Beaurin, Vincent Beaurin / Le spectre / Dans l’atelier de
Cézanne, Paris, Skira Flammarion, 2010, page 9.
Using rudimentary resources such as polystyrene, resin, coloured sands, a scraper made by himself, and
some blades, Vincent Beaurin produces radical, often hypnotic works which he always wants to be
soothing.
His works can be seen in the collections of the Fnac, the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Cartier pour
l’Art contemporain, the Mudam in Luxembourg, the Atelier de Cézanne museum in Aix-en-Provence,
and in the collection of Claude Berri.
Vernissage: Jan 12 6pm-9pm
Galerie Laurent Godin
5 rue du Grenier St Lazare - Paris
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday / 11 am - 7 pm
Free admission