PORTRAIT – At 37 years old, he is one of the most promising French contemporary artists of his generation with works inspired by great secular and pre-Christian texts. He received The Figaro Magazine in his workshop near Agen.
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At the beginning, there is the amazed visit to the Saint-Vincent cathedral of Saint-Malo, behind the thick ramparts of the corsair city where, on equinox days, the great calm of God is barely disturbed by the roar of the waves . In 2020, Augustin Frison-Roche hung around the 13th century choire century six large paintings, to which must be added a prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi calligraphed on the wall of a chapel: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace / Where there is hatred, let me put love…” An instrument of divine peace, and its glorious witness, Augustin Frison-Roche is today, brush in hand.
Like the Poverello, however, he first thought of a career in arms, his heart filled with dreams of chivalry. To be a man on horseback and not afraid. This is how he spent a year at Coldo d’Aix-en-Provence, at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire mountain, to prepare for the exam for the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, like his three brothers, all became officers. ” More I had…
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