Guy Lachot

Guy Lachot was born in 1955.

It is in the smell of the wood, the glue and the wax that Guy Lachot spent his childhood. Villy-en-Auxois's small domestic joiner's workshop, Burgundian (France) village of Semur en Auxois neighborhood, was its playground, its suitcase in treasures, its first library of textures and colours. When the young man announces to his father of his decision to become "an artist", this last one fall in dismay.

At 14 years old, a boy endowed for the work of the wood has the other thing to do than to dream! Guy will thus go to the secondary school of Dijon, to learn the joiner's workshop; while preparing his diploma, he becomes diligent of the courses of drawing of his professor Raymond Lemarchand; every Thursday, oil painting and art history in the workshop of the painter. In 1980, he leaves on the big construction sites of Iraq, Egypt, Algeria or Saudi Arabia, crosses destroyed cities, cities in construction, pass of the deserts in urban areas. He makes his reserve of images, sensations, savours.

In year 1990, he follows the courses of the College of Cabinetmaking in Avignon, where he completes his mastery of the sculpture. His first works, figurative painting, are colored, violent; he likes fairs, markets and supermarkets, service stations, in the truth urban scenes. He exhibits and sell regularly; everything could so continue; but not, brutally, the year 1994 , it is the break ; the artist abandons the figurative art for the abstraction. He says: " I could paint something of reassuring, landscapes for example; it would indeed be, gentile; but exactly it is the doubt which advances me in my painting, it is the mainspring, the emotion of my canvases... When I begin a canvas, that is with the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Fred Frith, Tony Conrad ; the music settles a chaotic circle in my workshop ; it pushes aside walls; I can go down in the well of the emotion and fill my buckets. "

During these years, he works relentlessly in his workshop which overhangs the Marne River, to Saulchery. His technique evolves; his generous knife works the texture of the oil with passion, playing on the alliances, deceiving alliances, through diffuse transparencies and thickenings of material.

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