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Michel Touret
Michel Touret

Driven by the urge of seeing, I became a pain­ter and drafts­man. It took me for that to give up any pre­fa­bri­ca­ted vision. I also bene­fit from the ambient pic­to­rial ‘diges­tion’. Currently caught bet­ween the free­dom of expres­sion and a quasi-religious concep­tion of artis­tic canons, I paint at my level, as free­ly as pos­sible, impre­gna­ted by the ener­gies of the moment and eve­ry­thing that inha­bits me, figu­ra­tive or more abs­tract. Each pain­ting requires a new eye. Simply being with the color, the line, mate­rials, and ope­ning myself to the ener­gy of the moment, acting and spon­ta­neous­ly regis­te­ring wha­te­ver shows up, brea­thing my own way across the surface.

The work of Michel Touret is impres­sive because of the varie­ty of themes and tech­niques used. It gene­rates a great ener­gy of life in which all sup­ports and objects are actors. There is nothing conven­tio­nal about it. Much like in his tea­ching, one feels that Michel pene­trates the soul of a sub­ject with aim of repre­sen­ting its spon­ta­neous flow.
Michel paints with his whole body that can be seen vibra­ting even when sea­ted. It is a ‘wri­ting’ whe­re­by the ener­gy of the moment is ren­de­red by a supple and conti­nuous ges­ture that vanishes of itself at its cur­rent loca­tion. This phy­si­cal wri­ting embo­dies pro­duc­tions with a pecu­lar vibration.

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