Jean-Pierre Lafrance - Eau #05-37 48x60 in / 121.92x152.40 cm

Jean-Pierre Lafrance, Eau #05-37 48x60 in / 121.92x152.40 cm is a mixed media work on panel. This piece illustrates the fluid interactions between color and material.

Jean-Pierre Lafrance remains above all a man of intuition; he goes where he feels his own sources coming from: within himself. That is why the body has hitherto dominated his subject matter. It is precisely in relation to this theme that the most vital transformation in his approach has taken place.

During the first years of his production, and until the end of the 1980s, he approached this theme from the outside, that is to say, by translating above all the body in its visible, perceptible expressions. Today, it is the interior of the envelope that interests him. His most recent production, where many - including myself - thought they recognized an inspiration from the landscape, is eloquent in this regard. In this series, he continues the same quest for the body, which he fragments even further.

This body is now one with its environment, taking shape in a bubbling of matter where the notion of volume is inscribed. The term "volume" is paramount here, and it should not be confused with "perspective," because Jean-Pierre Lafrance transposes onto the canvas this singularity of body and matter, and that, without deconstructing as the Cubists did.

He fragments and unites the body in a molecular dance that respects the two-dimensional reality of the support. A great plastic and aesthetic success, a series that will not cease to amaze us.

Important / Contextual note:

The illustration of the artwork in the living room setting is a digital simulation. It does not necessarily represent the exact scale or the actual dimensions of the painting.