FRANCE / PARIS: JEAN-MARC BUSTAMANTE, PEINTURES CARRÉES

until Saturday February 25 2012
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-7pm
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
T : + 33 (0)1 42 72 99 00
7 rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
France

Direction
Thaddaeus Ropac
thaddaeus.ropac@ropac.net

Presse
Alessandra Bellavita
alessandra@ropac.net
www.ropac.net

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an exhibition of new works on square screen-reprinted Plexiglas by French artist, Jean-Marc Bustamante.

This series demonstrates Bustamante's endeavour to gain an understanding of colour-painting. The explosion of colour on Plexiglas originates in expansive drawing or applying large strokes and patches of colour with felt pen on graph paper. The drawing is transformed and simplified through computer-processing, which removes everything that records the temporality of the action - the contact of the brush-strokes, the layering of the paint, the movements of the artist's hand. Far removed from any relation to traditional techniques, this is a new kind of painting, reminiscent of the brightly coloured images we are used to seeing on our computer or iPad screen. As the artist expresses it, we gain "spirit", lightness, simplicity - and probably also speed and fluency of perception (...)