nu-allonge (2013) Painting by Emmanuel Roussel

Trained at the Fine Arts School, a very long time in the service of performance and stage design in France and Europe, fresco decorator specializing in the application of coatings of lime, I met the public for the first time during 'exposure to Chambéry in 2010, a public seduced by this technique that qualify original, award-winning "heart shot" public housing Fair 2010.

The mortar I used, the contemporary world calls "polished concrete", is made ​​from lime, marble dust, ash or silica. My colors are natural pigments mixed with water. Under the effect of water, the process of "carbonation" lime (or simply when the mortar takes before drying), definitely sets the pigments in the material and it's this technique that, like Lascaux or frescoes of antiquity, perpetuates the work. Most often applied directly on the walls, I now adapts this technique on simple wooden panels.

If the technique is called "original", stroke, qualified academic or neoclassical, imagine that in addition to traditional brushes or brushes, I usually finish my paintings with a sander;
At the risk of destroying the formal balance of the figure, the accident and chance are also technical, because I want to reveal the matter as the subject or drawing. This struggle between matter and my stubbornness painter becomes a game I did not decide this game, but I choose to stop at any time or to return! It is a balance in the chaos, the figure is abstract or material becomes an image. In my opinion figurative and abstract are illusions or mere projections of the mind into believing the only beauty, when finally the soul expresses more or less accessible.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1963
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists