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André Quétard

Orléans, France
Artist (Painting, Sculpture)
Born 1940

Piled up in every corner of the studio, but also sometimes displayed haphazardly on some piece of furniture or hung along the walls, André Quétard's paintings compete for a place and envy the latest one that is still comfortable on the easel. The eye goes back and forth, dizzy with colors, in the white light that floods the room. Patterns impose themselves. Here is a box of Laughing Cow, here are faces of little men in the style of Sempé, here are branches... Here, a corner of a painting that you would think came straight from a Jackson Pollock dripping; there, a fragment of the Loire recalling Olivier Debré; there again, the memory of an abstract landscape by Zao Wou-Ki... And then, a recurring number, 72, letters, a few words such as Bacchanale or Orléans. We can also distinguish long friezes of patterns or signs that seem to come from an indefinable elsewhere…
But let us look at each canvas for a longer time, take a step back: in what universe exactly is our hilarious cheese box associated by a verse, carefully calligraphed, with the famous fable of the Crow and the Fox? To what group are the pictorial compositions of which we only see fragments attached? To what world do these names, these indecipherable arabesques refer? The questions jostle because here reality is lost in spaces of melted colors, sometimes punctuated by a geometry of vertical and horizontal bands that cross or ignore each other, apparently indifferent to the possible meaning of their graphic lace.
Are such paintings abstract or figurative? Difficult to say. It seems that we are here in an intermediate category to which it would be appropriate to give a proper name. This is precisely what André Quétard did by coining the neologism FIGABSTION to characterize the works he has painted since 2010.
Image of a real or unreal world, figurative painting takes as its model identifiable, recognized elements, even if they are sometimes deformed. Until 1910, the date of Kandinsky's first abstract watercolor, painting did not deviate from the rule that assigned it the mission of representing reality. Then came another form of creation: "I call abstract art," wrote Michel Seuphor, "any art that contains no reminder, no evocation of the observed reality, whether or not this reality is the artist's starting point."
For many years, like other painters, André Quétard oscillated between the figurative and the abstract because no creative process can be irreversible. But one day, he wanted to do something else. "After fifty years of alternating between figurative and abstract painting," confides the artist, "I decided, starting in 2010, to become a figabstive painter. Figabstion is a contraction of figuration and abstraction. I finally got a little tired of these two forms...

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