AU PLUS PROFOND ET TOUT AUTOUR Painting by Nicolas Bonnafous

"We do not know the secrets of the high seas by staying on the shore." Nicolas Bonnafous's artistic research, be it paintings, sculptures, drawings, poems, videos or audio recordings, are invitations to sit on the edge of the world.



"White papers", minimalist free-court drawings capturing the moment of the sweet transformations, with burnt and perforated canvases by the fire representing the earth. An exploration of duality, of unity and chaos, of empty space under angular sculptures, when the shots fixed videos in the field of grasses come to caress our eyes, which too much to see do not see anymore, to listen too much no longer hear, talk too much have nothing to say. My actions for you. I will keep the mildest and lightest gestures for you. Those whom the wind blows on my neck and stomach. These crazy ignorance that the world of men has never existed and that only the clouds and the sky have consistency. I would also tell you the laughter of a child, the birds and the calm horizon of straightness, like a painting that would have no edge and fill the world ....

Many references are at the heart of this self-taught journey, which began to paint from a young age, the race of the porticoes of Alexander Calder, the Chinese prints of fan kuan (dynasties song), the spirit of the breath at the end From the bottom of the desert to the Greek thinkers, from the raft of the jellyfish to the final judgment of Albi Cathedral, from Mark Rothko's colorful fields, to the raised stones of Stonehenge, when the sacred Japanese forests of Shinto cross the contemporary cremate pattus. All these accompaniments that Umberto Ecco names the open work take you to the edge of the world, where you will now have to walk alone.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1974
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists