At the Madadayo gallery, Jean-François Soro exhibits, in a refined scenography, large canvases inspired by the play of reminiscence. A painting in search of truth to be discovered during the opening, 12 rue des Mourgues, Friday June 28 at 7 p.m.
Ida y vuelta. Rue des Mourgues, on the walls of the Madadayo gallery, the paintings of its creator Jean-François Soro offer a striking play of mirrors. A decomposed movement, in flamenco called Ida y vuelta, drawing in hollow the inspirations of the painter then, installed in the center of the room, in flesh and blood, his quests. That of a painting fleeing the ego accompanied by a gesture carried by a hand freed from the yoke of ” the scopic drive” and giving birth to an act of painting carried by “another, as if in a waking state, in a dream.”
Traces of which René Char said that they alone make us dream
In bold colors, sometimes monochrome, the canvases support the memory of the spaces that man walks. This plastic from the Cévennes,“this Piedmont” which never ceases to surface on the surface of his canvases while dark and carnal faults, on long panoramic formats, recall the intimate, original wounds, from which we never let go.
Each painting is accompanied by short texts, signed Muriel Menuet, reinforcing an impression or diluting it even more strongly in order to let everyone believe, dream, get lost while reading these twenty paintings freed from their frames.
“I am reconnecting with large formats in a painting almost straight out of the tube, with little water, in a gesture, traces of which René Char said that they alone make one dream.”, confides Jean-François Soro. Movement whose completeness or incompleteness is nourished by tension, possessed by a desire to tell through pigment this world which is disintegrating. So, as a mirror, the soul resists.
