Discover the contemporary work of Fred Leclercq
main personal painting exhibitions
2016 Café Brochier, Saint-Julien-en-Vercors (26) 2015 Hotel du Vercors, Saint Martin-en-Vercors (26) 2010 EL Taller in Taurinya, Maria Dos de Céret gallery (66) 2003 Ateliers de la Maison du Roy, Sigean (11)
1999 Contemporary Art Center, Saint Cyprien (66) 1998 Thierry Pinet de Gaulade Gallery, Perpignan (66) 1995 La Pardalera Gallery, Elne (66)
collective
2023 Chemin des artistes, Eymeux - Valence Romans Agglo (26) 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022 Hôtel du Golf, Corrençon-en-Vercors (38) 2009 Galerie Maria Dos, Céret (66)
2008 Maria Dos Gallery, Céret (66)
2007 Maria Dos Gallery, Céret (66)
2004 Salon Puls’Art, Le Mans (72)
2003 Salon Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris (75)
2002 Salon Puls’Art, Le Mans (72). Nielle Gallery, Alès (30)
2001 Galerie Laurent Jamault, The Fleet (17)
1995 40th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge (92). Terre de Sienne Gallery, Céret (66) 1994 30th Salon du Dauphiné, Hébert Museum, La Tronche (38)
1988 Gallery of Fine Arts, Paris (75)
NATURAL MYTHOLOGY
On the mounted papers where folds organize the space, the red ochres are deployed to accommodate the patterns and shapes, figures and symbols within the material itself. In a climate of sweetness, delicacy, tenderness, fleshy flowers, virile and horned deities, undulating sirens, bodies of naked and offered women emerge. Through the play of dilutions and transparencies, the support and the image blend together, complement each other, evoking cave art with its fabulous animals. A feeling reinforced by the absence of perspective and volume, the fluid simplicity of the outline of things, the fusion between the background and the subject. But it is not a question of hunting or game, because it is a question of a Garden of Eden, a lost paradise where vegetation and the body come to life from a common primordial source. /p>
A whole natural, dreamlike and poetic mythology, inhabited by divinely monstrous beings, mysterious flowers and foliage. Life throbs gently there, coming from far away, from very far away, from the origins, where ancestral emotions and eternal beauties are hidden.
Jean-Michel Collet
03/29/21
