CRITIQUE – Unpublished and spectacular retrospective of this young French artist in the royal rooms of Africa, at the heart of the great battles painted by Horace Vernet.
A painter in Versailles is a long story. A contemporary painter in Versailles is almost a revolution. Apart from the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami who had covered the Guards’ room with his daisies on a gold background, creating a lively controversy by his mere presence in 2010, like Jeff Koons before him in 2008, the artists invited to the royal domain were mainly sculptors in the garden like Bernar Venet in 2011, Giuseppe Penone in 2013, Lee Ufan in 2014, installation artists like Anish Kapoor in 2015 and Olafur Eliasson in 2016, even photographers like Hiroshi Sugimoto in 2018. Painting, this vast trompe-l’oeil that defies space and centuries, is both safer and more risky. Safer because Versailles is his kingdom. More risky because she is surrounded by her masters.
ADAGP, Paris 2024, credit photo: Bertrand Huet / Tutti image Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris / Brussels
Guillaume Bresson, born in Toulouse in 1982, graduated from Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2007, is this newcomer to the cinemas…
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