UNE ILE (2008) Painting by Pascal Chanier

Trained in painting and Graphic Arts in the years 66 to 70, Pascal Chanier experimented with various pictorial techniques on a wide variety of media, ranging from Hyperrealist illustration, to Mannerist documentary study; from graphics, to surrealist painting.
After having evolved in the world of institutional, medical and scientific communication, he explored from the years 85, thanks to the advent of microcomputers, the avant-garde possibilities of the synthetic image using these new digital brushes.
This new creative tool offers him a new perspective on the world and the things around him, ranging from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, from the two-dimensional image to the 3D.
His current approach, driven by a spiritual, authentic and eclectic quest, is realized in works conceived as interactive processes between real and virtual components, thus transporting the viewer into a poetic and dreamlike universe, where light is mother-of-pearl of subtle polarizations.
The symbol hides as much as it reveals, in it silence and the verb act in concert, the infinite is thus mingled with the finite ...

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1950
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists