François PERRODIN

François Perrodin, develops a work which extends the history of 20th century abstraction, the purest and most demanding. His work inherits at the same time concrete art, minimalism and monochrome. Perrodin brings painting into play in its relation to space: the space of the work, the space of the exhibition, and the space of the viewer.

The bases on which my work develops, in particular the notion of functioning and, beyond that, the idea of a reactivity of the object, remain in their totally current definitions. Certain specific elements of my work seem to me to have become clearer, to have found more assertive forms and new definitions. First of all, the insistence on the role of the object as a concretization of the form. Then the over-activation of the sensitive quality of the surfaces, their reactivity, the affirmation of an instability that exemplifies the qualification of the object. Finally the taking into account of the mobility of the painting, the relationship to the spaces in which these objects are placed and the relationship to the spectators.

It is a work of painting: the surface of the works, bordered by a frame, is covered with paint, and plays on its effects: matt, shiny... It is a surface of "representation". The surface can also be fragmented into different thicknesses, introducing plays of light and shadow into the object itself but also on the wall on which it is hung.

In the construction of the paintings, all the elements (width, height, surface, depth...) are thought of in relation to each other. The pieces are composed in series: they propose different formulations which, together, have a coherence, revealing a field of possibilities. The reduction of colours - most often black or grey plays - contributes to highlighting this constructive approach: it allows to differentiate shapes, to decipher objects. At the same time, they contribute to a reactivation of the surface.