Until November 21, theSaint-Pierre des Minimes space exhibits recent works by Jean-Marc Brunet. Cet artiste makes nature an ally, magnified by this series of “Discoveries”.
“Poets have said things about my painting that I didn’t yet know,” confides Jean-Marc Brunet. However, this creator, who has exhibited his works in France and abroad, speaks very well about the creations visible under the vaults of Saint-Pierre des Minimes.
“Nature always remains a constant theme for me,” notes Jean-Marc Brunet, who defines himself as “a painter of landscape and interior landscapes.” The stars, the green, and this time the trees and the roots are constantly present.
If his paintings belong neither to the figurative world nor to that of the abstract, we owe it to the poetic universe of the artist. “For my part, painting is a necessity,” summarizes Jean-Marc Brunet. Either we simply see a painting, or we look at it more precisely. And from that moment we enter into a face-to-face encounter with her. We communicate with painting. Here, the paintings and engravings are composed of these nodes of conversation which allow us to try to inhabit the world more poetically.”
Plant presences
A tour through the Compiègne exhibition, formed with paintings produced over the last two years, confirms this link. Brunet’s paintings are inspired by traces of nature, trees and their branches, their roots… These “plant presences” which oscillate between real presence and sliding towards the invisible. It is this personal notion of “a change of scenery” that Brunet wishes to share with his visitors.
In addition to the large-format canvases presented at the Minimes, engravings are also exhibited as well as artists’ books. There are around forty in total, for which Jean-Marc Brunet brought his vision to illustration.
The Compiègne association Art Present, founded forty years ago by Evelyne Lerouge, specialist in contemporary art, is at the origin of the entry of this form of art into the Compiègne Cultural Center.
Jean-Marc Brunet took advantage of the opening to pay tribute “to Daniel Boulanger”. “This wonderful writer born in Compiègne lived in Oise, where he died ten years ago.” He wants an exhibition in this same place on the drawings and writings of the singer Claude Nougaro, who died twenty years ago. “During our conversations, he often said ‘art is a form of conversation with others’.”
