Frédéric Bouffandeau

Overview

The Oniris gallery begins its new year programme by hosting “Paysages” (Landscapes), a new solo exhibition by Frédéric Bouffandeau. The artist continues his sensitive exploration of colour, light and the relationship with living things through a series of works that reinvent the very notion of landscape.

For several years, Bouffandeau has been developing a unique formal vocabulary: vibrant painting, constructed in layers, with plays on transparency and rhythmic variations. In Paysages, he deploys this pictorial language like a territory to be explored. His compositions, both organic and mental, sketch out interior horizons where nature becomes a pretext for a perceptive experience.

Frédéric Bouffandeau's work is characterized by a unique and imperfect form that he calls the “matrix.” Reminiscent of both a human cell and a plant or flower, it is alive, supple, sensual, and imbued with a certain poetry. Sometimes full, sometimes hollowed out or opaque, Frédéric Bouffandeau constructs and deconstructs this form using paint, drawings, neon lights, aluminum sculptures, and other media.

Neither faithful representation nor pure abstraction, these landscapes occupy an in-between space. They evoke silhouettes of vegetation, sheets of light, suspended spaces. Color, omnipresent, acts as a living phenomenon: it breathes, moves, unfolds, inviting the eye to circulate across the surface of the painting.

The exhibition presents a collection of recent works—canvases, papers, and neon lights—that demonstrate Bouffandeau's evolution toward a more expansive, atmospheric style of painting, in which the material seems to be animated by its own energy.

With Paysages, Frédéric Bouffandeau offers visitors a sensory journey, an immersion into a world where perception becomes poetic experience. The Oniris gallery becomes a place of dialogue between color and space, between gaze and imagination.