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Exhibition view, TRAINING AND THE OPPOSITE, 22,48 m², Romainville
Blue Tom (detail), 2023, Stoneware, glass paste, soap, hair, cotton, incense, sugar, 37,4 x 13,7 x 13,7 inches
Green Lara (detail), 2023, Stoneware, glass paste, soap, hair, cotton, incense, sugar, 25,5 x 13,7 x 13, 7 inches
Exhibition view, TRAINING AND THE OPPOSITE, 22,48 m², Romainville
Vertumme 2021 Glazed sandstone, kumquats 11,4 x 14,2 x 6,7 inches
Nature Morte à l'Orange 2023 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 23,6 x 29,5 inches
Pomone 2021 Glazed sandstone, kumquats 14,6 x 11,4 x 11,4 inches
Nature Morte au Pomelos 2023 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 23,6 x 29,5 inches
Lara 2023 Glazed sandstones, grapes, incense 14,6 x 10,6 x 5,1 inches
Nature Morte aux Raisins 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 23,6 x 29,5 inches
La veilleuse 2022 Sandstones, apple 27,6 x 12,2 x 8,7 inches
Mara 2023 Glazed sandstones, glass paste, pomelos 79 x 12 x 8 inches
Antoine 2022 Glazed sandstones, apple 13 x 13,8 x 4,7 inches
Stillborn Newborn etc 2022 Fountain in glazed sandstones, glass paste 17,7 x 14,2 x 15 inches
Solibacillus Kalamii 2019 Glazed sandstones 23,6 x 23,6 x 51,2 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #10 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches unique
Les fruits de la Terre #9 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches unique
Les fruits de la Terre #7 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #14 2023 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches
Pendick 2021 Sandstones, glass paste, pampa flower 40 x 40 x 20 inches credits: Akya Lux
Mes doigts dans la mousse 2022 Glazed sandstones tiles 18,9 x 11,4 x 0,4 inches
Sucellus 2021 Sandstones, ink, glass paste, grapes, incense 40 x 40 x 60 inches
Floating Point 2022 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 9,4 x 14,2 x 2,4 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #8 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #3 2021 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 6,7 x 11,8 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #2 2021 Coloured pencils on Montval paper, 6,7 x 11,8 inches
Les fruits de la Terre #1 2021 Coloured pencils on Montval paper, 6,7 x 11,8 inches
A Little Beast Portrait 2022 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 7,5 x 3,9 x 1,6 inches
Architecture pour Lune 2022 Glazed sandstones, glass paste, soil, fruit, 78,7 x 39,4 x 11,8 inches
The Den 2020 Ceramics, incense 6 x 6 x 4 inches
Call it Sleep 2022 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 17,7 x 14,6 x 2 inches Exhibition view: "Mes doigts dans la mousse", galerie A.MANO Studio, biarritz, 2022
Michel 2020 Ceramics, dried flower, earring 15 x 8 inches
There is no Place like Home 2019 Sandstones, car mats, lioleum, gas lantern 140 x 100 inches credits: Florent Basiletti
Les Deux Géants à la Prune 2022 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 23,6 x 29,5 inches
Bliss V 2020 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 8,3 x 11,8 inches
Bliss III 2020 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 8,3 x 11,8 inches
Pattern II 2020 Coloured pencils on Montval paper 31,5 x 43,3 inches
A Beast Portrait 1 2023 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 9,8 x 14,6 x 0,8 inches
A Beast Portrait 3 2023 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 9,8 x 14,6 x 0,8 inches
The Locked Up #1 2023 Glazed sandstones, glass paste 14,6 x 18,5 x 0,8 inches
Étienne François's paintings are born from a vast corpus of images; he never uses photographs directly. His inspiration comes from memories or notes that he regularly takes. His paintings are worked on by theme, forming series. He works on clichés from art history, which give rise to reflections on the pattern. But while these sources are, by nature, particularly recognizable, they remain for him a repertoire of forms, a visual impulse to paint, rather than quotations or references.
Reappropriation often takes place via a detail, a formal element that he diverts, trying to avoid overly obvious representation. His paintings are constantly evolving, moving away from the initial idea to work on form and pattern. He wants to show the path, the changes that have nourished the final image.