Landscapes of Brittany and Scotland
by Grégoire Hespel
- Printed in France
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Technique: oil painting on canvas.
Exhibition available in several formats.
“Grégoire Hespel is a curious sailor, a sailor of the shore. He walks the coast, photographs it when necessary, draws it, sketches it, then restores it, transforms it, magnifies it through his art. The Brittany of Keremma – a strange utopian polder conceived in the 19th century by Louis Rousseau –, the mountains of Scotland or the dark woods of imaginary forests, these are the painter’s sources of inspiration. Nevertheless, he never portrays places; at most the initiate will recognize an isolated chapel (…), this tree, such a hovel, a wreck
perhaps... but the exercise seems futile, just like trying to identify in such and such a mauve, yellow or blue patch, the heather, the broom or the barbel: what's the point?
It is in the Pantin (93) studio that the poetic alchemy takes place. However, probably out of modesty, Grégoire Hespel is more likely to talk about his technique than his art. The artist's palette is spread out in colored layers on the raw concrete floor, next to the still blank canvas, chosen meticulously: "It's a two-layer greasy coating," he says, "number 141."
At the beginning, the painter makes an extremely meticulous drawing then, often working in the wet, he multiplies the layers, projects these famous “relatively random” colored spots which soften the tone of the whole and give it its strangeness and its light; finally he varnishes using glazes tinted with this very characteristic yellow oxide. He thus obtains a “precise blur”, his “way of approaching the territory”.
Excerpt from a text by Christophe Morin, lecturer in Tours, 2012.
“In a corner of the studio, a small portrait, cracked canvas, in the style of Delacroix - “The boss!”, comments the painter.”
Excerpt from a text by Didier Goldschmidt, In the studio of Grégoire Hespel, October 2005
• Outdoors: choose locations where people stroll slowly and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the city center, near schools, in a public park, or along a walking path... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: lobby, office, waiting room, cafeteria, meeting room—choose the best-lit space.
PLEASE NOTE: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The paper chosen for printing our exhibitions meets two essential criteria: beautiful color rendering and durability.
•• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130 gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550 gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are located in a slightly damp area.
For outdoor displays, the formats of our poster campaigns have been chosen to best suit election billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor (50 x 70 cm): 8 panels to hang on 5 linear meters of free wall space. Outdoors, opt for the large format if your billboards are large enough and the space chosen to display them allows for a certain amount of distance.
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Full view of the exhibition
