Discover the contemporary work of Benoît GALIFER
I was born in 1944 in Arles, a city rich in a rich past historical and artistic where I discovered painting through contact with Théo Rigaud, a high school drawing teacher and painter at the University of Paris. rediscover. Despite the desire to continue, I committed myself to à I studied in Montpellier in the course of medical studies and over the years and through competitions I became an academic in pediatric surgery, head of department at the University Hospital. A profession full of principles and obligations where there is no such thing as improvisation and randomness and where failure is punished ...the absolute opposite of freedom of creation which characterizes art in general, although it is classic to say that surgery is an art. I remained thus 50 years without painting, which does not mean without contact with painting maintained by attendance at museums, exhibitions, readings as well as by friendship. with some local painters. Just like, I never gave up the idea of getting back to work paint once released constraints of a difficult profession share with another commitment. This is what I have been doing since November 2012 in my workshop. My production is visible on my site "www.benoit.galifer.fr"
Virgin of any academic learning and training and not subscribing to any movement or school approach, I approach painting like a blank canvas without denying the multiple influences that cross me. Without any pretension or message to you. deliver - I am not a painter of concepts but of percepts - I have been trying for 12 years to find my writing between figuration and abstraction in this great continuum that is painting where the cursor may lean more than one way than on the other depending on the moments and the subjects, which can give the impression of a heterogeneous production which illustrates both the major elements of nature (water, earth, air, fire) as well as the cities of the world or the landscapes of the country of Arles which built me and of Occitanie where I was born. I live. I chose acrylic as my main medium;
The old young painter that I am wants to convince myself that artistic emergence has no age limit.
