Gray-light2005–2006
Nuptial bond
2005, 27½ x 19½ ins
acrylic on canvas
Private collection
LYDIA HARAMBOURG« LE VOYAGE DE LA COULEUR » 2005 (extract)
Today, the color gray has taken possession of the surface, which is still offered for metamorphosis. In its turn, gray has become a privileged liaison, forming a starting point for potential imagination, in sensory connivance with color variations.
To emerge from white and pass on to gray, taking in detours that reveal the active glow and effect of color on the environment and on oneself, is quite simply to demonstrate the passage of color.
SYLVESTRE CLANCIER« BELLEGARDE VER SON MONT ANALOGUE » 2005 (extract)
Bellegarde has succeeded in capturing a thread from the past and stretching it forward into the future. That thread is the color gray that melts on the canvas of forms and signals of color, inducing new transparency. Because it isn’t really neutral, it is an authentic color beneath and beyond the color we experience.
So, by various means and with magnificent style, Bellegarde makes the light shimmer. And we observe, on those canvases full of mystery and grace, here an orange twine of vibration, there a red droplet of buried desires… All of these canvases invite contemplation…
