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The Toulouse artist Quentin Chabrillac is exhibiting a series of recent paintings in a building located on the banks of the Brienne canal. The exhibition entitled FONDBLANC is open to the public Friday January 24 and Saturday January 25.
Seeing him looking very chic like this – black suit, matching tie and sneakers – Quentin Chabrillac looks more like a trader than a painter. Yet another proof that we must free ourselves from ready-made images. “It’s just that I like to be well dressed! I’ve sometimes climbed walls in a suit to spray paint,” laughs this young artist born in 88 in Montauban.
The location of the exhibition is also original: an apartment on the first floor of a building in the alleys of Barcelona, where cooking classes were held. Emptied of its scent and its furniture, it leaves its place for around ten large canvases. Under the title FONDBLANC, this exhibition is sponsored by Philippe Joachim, president of the Friends of Abattoirs, the Toulouse club of patrons, collectors and lovers of contemporary art close to the Allées Charles-de-Fitte museum.
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White is very present, but in a multitude of subtle nuances, from the white-gray of a sky announcing a downpour, to the bluish white of a beautiful winter morning. Flashes of neon pink, almost black geometric patterns, a few words thrown on the canvas, traces suggesting erased paints, emptiness and fullness, disrupt a first impression of softness. Depending on inspiration, Quentin Chabrillac mixes techniques: aerosols, oil, acrylic, grease pencil.
-The great adventure of graffiti
A style that echoes his experience: “I was an undisciplined student. I channeled myself through painting. At the start there was the great adventure of graffiti on the walls of Toulouse and elsewhere. Then I I traveled Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, New York… Meetings with other artists, like the Toulouse graffiti artist Tilt, the exhibitions of Mister Freeze and Layup, a collective of which I am part, made me. evolve Today I have turned to contemporary art Even if the graffiti culture shines through in my paintings, and even if I am very attached to this street art, they are two very distinct worlds. codes.”
Quentin Chabrillac has produced around thirty exhibitions, preferably in unusual places. Encouraged in his approach by the Friends of Abattoirs, by Jacques Rivet, Artcurial auctioneer who wrote for his catalog, and Alexandre Foks, his agent, the artist is trying this new experience of exhibiting in an apartment, outside the traditional circuits.
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