Haute-marne Liberated / 2006

Langres, An Artist, A Place.                            Sp;       The New Horizons Of Emmanuel Berthier                 Revealed Artist Recently, Emmanuel Berthier presented His Very First Exhibition At Paris. The René Space Lemaire.Nothing Surprising About This. The Ramparts And The Wide Horizon They Open Up Are A Favorite Place.                             Were His Paintings Barely Released? In The Window Of The René Lemaire By Members Of The "Tête De L'art" Last Week, That Already We Wondered About The Identity Of Of This "World Maker". Emmanuel Berthier, Member For Two Years Of The Association Dedicated To Art, Painted For A Relatively Short Time. Who Would Believe It? Adept At Oil On Canvas, He Opens The Door To A World Of Possibilities. Him.A World Ultimately Rather Minimalist And Colorful, Sometimes Punctuated By Geometric Shapes And Especially Inhabited By Singular Characters Who Are Very Likeable. Endowed With Of An Innate Sense Of Composition, Emmanuel Berthier Has Neither Walls Nor Borders. There You Go Why? Its Meaning «the Ramparts Are The Place To Be Langres That Suit Me The Most. Because They Open Towards Infinity And A Multitude Of Elsewhere.                            Sp;                          Sp;     The Transition To The Act For Emmanuel Berthier, The Creative Process Is Always The Same. Taking A Notebook Out Of His Pocket, He Details His Way Of Doing Things. “It All Starts With A Small, Undefined Sketch At The Start...I Have To Finish It Before Moving On To The Next One. The Web. The Colors Come Next,” He Says Modestly. As Far Back As He Can Remember, Emmanuel Has Never Given Up On His Work. The Pencil. It Is Very Recently That He Moved To The Pencil. à Painting. The First Of His Paintings, He Showed In 2005 To The Occasion Of The Biennale Of Haut-Marne Artists. Since Then He Has Not Let Go Of His Work. The Brush.                 A New World     Inspiration Comes From Nowhere...or More Precisely From Everywhere. “A Simple Form, the Attitude Of A Person Even When Seen” Little Enough To Start The Machine. In His Paintings, The Theme Of Music Is Recurrent. In All His Paintings, We Also Find, Even If It Is Sometimes Only Suggested, An Erotic Connotation But Which Never Harms The Viewer. At Ease Without Depicting Delusional Beings. As For The Explosion Of Colors In His Paintings, He Explains Simply: “There Is So Much Darkness In Life That A Touch Of Color Doesn't Hurt”. From This First Exhibition, He Simply Expects “ ;that People Say To Themselves "I Am In His World" Him"». There Is Only One Thing To Do: Push The Door Of The René-Lemaire Space To Enter...                                                  Sp; Sylvie Chapron.                                 Var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-33444926-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { Var Ga = Document.createElement('script'); Ga.type = 'text/javascript'; Ga.async = True; Ga.src = ('https:' == Document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl': 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Var S = Document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; S.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, S); })();