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Alain Limouzin
Lithographs and drawings
Summer 2019
Mainly composed of black-and-white lithographs in limited edition or unique pieces because the artist intervened on the proofs once again, this exhibition presents thirteen works, some of them in color all conceived in a contemporary approach to figuration. Addressing the theme of Nature, more specifically in our relationship with the animal world, in the face of ecological upheavals and the loss of biodiversity, these works contribute to the most up-to-date reflection on the human face of the environment.

The Animal is an integral part of the artist's approach as the main essence of his visual language. That is to say, it took him several years of experimentation, observation and analysis through drawing, photography and video, on live animals, before he could make the gesture creation becomes almost that of an automatic language of the subject. An extraction of some kind of knowledge of the animal to put it into relation with us equally in a representation other than those already codified in our iconographic, symbolic or pictorial language.

In this balance of power, it is the Animal that expresses itself. The artist lets him stage himself in a duality with our environment more and more present and symbolically represented in the water towers. Signs of urbanization, framing and rectilinear forms come to oppose movements and more organic forms of animals. A great expressionist beauty emerges from the images thus created where one feels the energy in the strength of the drawing and the emotion in this Nature who faces his fate.
[…] The animals also have a history, but it is us who write it with our affects and our representations. Their story is the story of our gaze on them. The real is elsewhere. [...] Boris Cyrulnik "Humanized animals" in If lions could talk: animal condition tests, [Paris], Gallimard, 1998.
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