Tropicalistic

Technique: oil pastel and/or acrylic with roller on paper.
Exhibition available in several formats.

Textile prints and Art Deco trained Julien Colombier's eye to form, color, and the observation of detail. Early hypnosis, as he calls his early creations, led to Matisse and Keith Haring, artists capable of portraying the energy of joy. The young man then discovered the power of pattern.

Of the repeated, hammered, punctuated motif, of its perpetual rhythm. On a black background, armed with pastels and chalks, Julien Colombier hones a technique that occupies space through the collision of colors, which he uses as a source of light. Jungles, clouds, waves, geometric figures, become pretexts for these contrasts and reality is distorted, on the edge of abstraction. For if he prefers them universal and ageless, his motifs are not subjects; rather, they serve as supports to create atmospheres that, at first glance, seem devoid of narration and personal projections.

However, by looking more closely - by taking the time to see and feel - the viewer will be able to perceive in the natural and fluid way in which the artist organizes the so-called chaos of nature, the aspiration to capture its infinite vibration, its disconcerting sensuality...
Julien Colombier's paintings then become the exposed faces of invisible worlds, traversed by ardent, "tropicalistic" saps... A single principle: first, provoke the impact, frontal and raw; then, make the shock wave felt, in finesse and nuances.