Discover the contemporary work of René FOURGNAL

Through various newspaper articles that were devoted to him, René FOURGNAL tries to explain his work by quoting first Salvador DALI : « all my ambition in the pictorial is to materialize with more precision imperial rage, images of concrete irrationality ». Art, according to René FOURGNAL, is not and should not be a privilege reserved for an elite, art will always be alive as an expression of essential human experience and means of communication. By working, "he says, then I immobilize time and space, giving the infinite presence in the "me" which unites with the universe. Life becomes a single whole. Only the movement creates the event of a "hidden God" in the energy it generates. The image becomes rigid and set a time which may allow the sensitive viewer to escape. It can be said that the Russian painter Vassili Kandinsky is the inventor of abstract art. His first works date from the 1910’S. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, two major trends have emerged: one emotional, often tachist or gesture, expression determined between the consciousness and unconscious of the artist, the other geometrical, a more or less cold research on the form and colour in terms of mathematical relationships. René FOURGNAL practices one or the other of these two trends following his emotions. He often likes to recall the thought of the great philosopher Simone Weil: "What makes our culture so difficult to communicate to people, is not that it is too high, because it is too low. We take a singular pleasure by lowering yet. Abstract art allows to rise and also to be aware that there’s something other than the visible. Paul Klee said : "I make the invisible visible" and Arthur RIMBAUD : "I am working to make myself seen." This is currently the work of René FOURGNAL.MAIN EXHIBITIONS1999 Spain. BARCELONA. December « 5e international exhibition of visual arts ACEA’S » Gets for one of his works the Honour Award of this city 2000 Germany. BERLIN (Caputh). May/june. International exhibition – PROARTE Gallery Armenia. YEREVAN. Sept/oct. National museum of Fine Arts France. BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT. Oct. Casino (personal exhibition) France. PARIS. November. Artitude Gallery – Village Suisse Brazil. SAO PAULO. December. International exhibition. Bronze medalFrance. PARIS. January. Artitude Gallery – Village Suisse. « Diversity ofcontemporary art». Special jury award for the quality and originality of his work France. BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT. October. Casino France. PARIS. November. Artitude Gallery – Village Suisse. 2002 Russia. MOSCOW. Cultural Center of State. 1st prize in all categories 2004 France. MOULINS-YZEURE. Nov/Dec. Organized by the Conseil Général de l’Allier. Bellevue castle « Inside travels » (personal exhibition) 2007 France. DOYET, Sept. Organized by Conseil Général de l’Allier, Aire motorway of Allier – « The Fabulous Destiny of René FOURGNAL » (personal exhibition) 2009 USA. NEW YORK, April – A JAIN MARUNOUCHI Gallery – “From Paris to NY, Diversity of International Contemporary Art” (by Artitude Gallery) USA. NEW YORK, April – MONTSERRAT Gallery – “From Paris to New York, Diversity of international Contemporary Art” (by Artitude Gallery) China. SHANGHAI, Sept. “Artitude Gallery in Shanghai”. Award of excellence for “Harmonie” France. MOULINS, sept. “Looks elsewhere”. VIP lounge of the town hall (personal exhibition) France. PARIS, oct. “Espace Pierre Cardin”. 2011 France. BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT (Allier). March. “Week end of art”. Casino France. BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT (Allier). June. Community commons in Bourbonnais. France. GOUISE (Allier), sept. “Second exhibition of arts ». Village hall. Guest of honor 2012 France. BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT (Allier), March. Community commons in Bourbonnais. France. CHANTELLE (Allier). June/July. “Maison du tourisme” (personal exhibition) 2013 France. GOUISE (Allier), May to Sept. “Association Bouquet d’Art” France. CHATEAUGAY (Puy-de-Dôme), May. “Balad’expo au château » France. SANCOINS (Cher), June. 27th art exhibition. Oscar Méténier Center. Award of acrylic for “Un jaune égaré”