Jean-Pierre Lafrance - Things Are Going II 40x30 in / 101.60x76.20 cm

Jean-Pierre Lafrance, Things Are Going II 40x30 in / 101.60x76.20 cm is a mixed media on canvas. Jean-Pierre Lafrance explores the movements and dynamics of forms.

Lafrance remains above all a man of intuition; he goes where he feels his own sources coming from: within himself. This is why the body has thus far dominated his subject matter. It is precisely in relation to this theme that the most vital transformation of 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 the body mainly 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 a landscape inspiration, 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 should not be confused with "perspective," because Jean-Pierre Lafrance transposes onto the canvas this singularity of body and matter, and this, without deconstructing as the Cubists did. He fragments and unites the body in a molecular dance that respects the two-dimensional reality of the medium. A great plastic and aesthetic achievement, a series that will continue to surprise 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.