Yves Clerc : Back to Nature

So figurative and yet so surreal, Yves Clerc's painting is a decorative splendor in which the artist defines his "painted reality". Drawing his inspiration from the reality around him, the painter transfigures figuration to go beyond his subject. The details of nature - petals, leaves, flowers - are accumulated here to make way for the magnificence of pictorial details. Indeed, it is thanks to the artist's virtuosity and singular technique that his works soak up light and come to life before the viewer's eyes. These superimposed layers of paint add an additional perspective to the works, an appearance of depth as well as text. This infinite series of small strokes and smears, reminiscent of post-impressionist techniques, constitutes the pure essence of his painting. Even if the subjects diversify, through his characteristic material, the work itself remains Yves Clerc.
A Mannerist artist, he does not wish to imitate reality, but rather to represent a vision of the world in which his art manifests itself through the elongation of forms, the saturation of colors and the tension of postures. In this way, his work can be seen as a doorway, a place of passage between two worlds, the real and the represented. Yves Clerc: Back to nature is therefore an invitation to contemplate the reality represented, a reality in which the human presence allows itself to be buried beneath lush vegetation. A reality in which nature reclaims its rights.