Jean-Pierre Lafrance - Toudra 48x36 in / 121.92x91.44 cm

Jean-Pierre Lafrance, Toudra 48x36 in / 121.92x91.44 cm, mixed media on panel. This piece offers an abstract world rich in textures.

Lafrance remains above all a man of intuition; he goes where he feels his own sources emerge: within himself. This 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 primarily translating the body in its visible, perceptible expressions.

Today, it is the interior of the envelope that interests him. His most recent production, in which many – including myself – believed 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. Today, this body is one with its environment, taking shape in a bubbling of matter where the notion of volume is inscribed.

The term "volume" is essential here, and it should not be confused with "perspective", because Jean-Pierre Lafrance transposes onto the canvas this singularity of the 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 success, a series that will continue to surprise us.

Important / Contextual note:

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