René Seyssaud, "Instinctive Colorist" at the Gallo-Roman Museum of Sisteron
Seyssaud, painter of the earth
From September 9 to November 11, 2017, the Espace d'Ornano at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Sisteron presents a very beautiful exhibition dedicated to the work of René Seyssaud. The Alexis Pentcheff Gallery is very happy to collaborate with the city of Sisteron on this project paying tribute to one of the most outstanding figures of 20th century painting in Provence.
In this exhibition, the town of Sisteron highlights the main inspirations of René Seyssaud: the landscape in all its forms and peasant works, more rarely the sea, when the artist had the opportunity, still lifes, quite numerous on table corners and portraits, of family and neighborhood.
The language of Seyssaud is that of the earth. The painter is the interpreter of his diversity, of his infinite richness, through a plastic vocabulary that he handles with fervor and in which color holds a predominant place.
Solidity, daring and sensual mastery of color
Solidity, daring, sensual mastery of color, these are the qualifiers that are the first to come into contact with the work of René Seyssaud. Powerfully anchored in a nature whose rhythms and breaths she punctuates, her painting is one that is experienced, felt with fervor. Emotion indeed holds the greatest place in an artistic process which refutes any theory considered by the painter as drying, useless and vain.
René Seyssaud offers a work rooted in the Provençal soil but which is not at all folkloric. On the contrary, it wants to be universal, delivering a message of communion with nature and the forces, visible and invisible, which inhabit it. Powerful and delicate, it is both spontaneous and durable, timeless and timeless.
