I practice painting and not rhetoric.
I don't think about art and painting, then I paint.
I live in the world, I paint, then I think about painting and art and the world.
Having landmarks in the Chauvet cave, Luxor, Fayoum, Giotto or Fra Angelico is a matter of atavistic heritage transmitted through the body, not an intellectualized concept that would guide the arm beyond the centuries.
Rhetoric is therefore neither my means of expression nor my way of life.
I have always lived alone.
Doubt has long made me hesitate to show my work that I didn't feel mature enough.
However, I see that it is getting closer to the intimacy of my being.
I perceive that work begins to produce meaning by the fact that the pictorial language that my hands invent every day is consistent with what I feel about the world and myself.
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2022 .Le Journal de Sainte-Croix et environs - "Les laboratoires de Laurent Guenat", P. Debiève (F) > PDF
2016 .Blog "lelittéraire" "Celui qui se bat - Entretien avec Laurent Guenat", Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret (F) > blog
.......... Blog "lelittéraire" Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret (F) > blog
2015 .Blog "De l'art hélvétique contemporain" Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret (F) > blog
.......... Beat Selz (Galerie Selz - art contemporain, Perrefitte, CH - www.selz.ch - > PDF
2014 .Performance Cave de la Chaufferie, Couvet, CH, C. du V-d-T > JPG
2013 .Blog "De l'art hélvétique contemporain" Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret (F) > blog
2012 .Launch of the CD Fabelsaft, Courrier de Genève (F) > JPG
2008 .Verborgene Teile, Bieler Tagblatt (D) > PDF
.......... Parties cachées, Journal du Jura (F) > PDF
2003 .Das Grabmal der Sprachen, Bieler Tagblatt (D) > JPG
.......... Tombeau des langues, Journal du Jura (F) > JPG
.......... Die Völlerei, Bieler Tagblatt (D) > JPG
2002 .Hymnes à la nuit, Journal du Jura (F) > JPG
.......... Hymnes à la nuit, Bieler Tagblatt (D) > JPG
2001 .Travail en résidence, Kaisersberg, L'Alsace (F) > JPG
2000 .Exposition personnelle Empreinte, Quotidien Jurassien (F) > JPG
1998 .«Variations instantanées», Fabrizio Scaravaggi, Passages no 25, 1998 (F: > p.1 - > p.2 ) (D: > p.1 - > p.2)