[EXHIBITION] States of mind
The opening of the exhibition Etats d'âme will take place on Tuesday, January 10, at 12:00 p.m. Matisse Building, The Gallery
Jacques Delhaie began oil painting at the age of 13. Passionate visitor of the museum of Valenciennes, he looks for the techniques implemented and experiments them: work in paste, with the knife, on the colors... Graduated from the school of Fine Arts, he teaches his career during the plastic arts in high school.
Stylistically out of step with his time but with a pictorial facture that ties him to the tradition, his style simultaneously bears witness to various movements : symbolism, surrealism, realism. By his perfectionism, the concern of the detail and his technical control make him evolve; adding effects of trompe-l'oeil which participates in the confusion of the creation, the support becomes the 'theater' in which the work is registered. Thus the support is at the same time presentation and representation of itself and just as much carrier of meaning.
The exhibition States of Soul will be on view at the Gallery, Matisse Building, from Tuesday, January 10 through Friday, February 17, 2023.