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 « AIR THE HEAD OF PEOPLE WHO STOP THERE »

“The true mirror of our speeches is the course of our lives”. This sentence from a famous ancient french writer Montaigne may sum up the philosophy of Fabrice Réhel, self-educated kind of painter born in 1976 in Brittany, France.

ABOUT PHILOSOPHY

This curly boy finds his pleasure searching for new pictorial ways : "I think I am obsessed by creating all the time. To leave traces, draw lines or even place a stone on another... always trying new things. That's why wasting my life to earn it, was not possible. Too many things to get out of me! I wonder: You can always find a solution. I travelled a bit in quite nice places like Morocco, West Indies where I lived, Ireland, Polynesia, met nice people. After I decided to be a ‘professional painter’. Invent your life because none of us can go into ready-to-live-boxes. Some people say it is not easy, you need a huge energy. But it's so much more pleasant ! "

DIVERSITY AND SALTWATER

The diversity of his production leads him as much to work on large sizes ( "Lifelines" series : geographical faces, concepts of boundaries to be exceeded), that on the universe of the beach and surfing. He teaches it on an Atlantic French island , in summertime. His pieces are currently showed in France and Belgium, and some other emigrated to UK, Switzerland, Germany or Italy, even USA.

" To paint the universe of surfing is like making a good session : pure pleasure ! Then comes the other pleasure to show my work, with this simple ambition : to air the head of people who stop there. "

in the year 2007, to celebrate the 50 years of Surfing in France, he worked with the Museum of the Island of Oléron for an exhibition called : « Surfer La Vague ! ». Among his latest activities, he was with other artists guest of the Biarritz Roxy Jam Festival 2007, in France.
The first International Art Fair devoted to Surfing (MIACS 2007 and 2008), at Biarritz too, was an important event he participated.

INFLUENCES AND KIND OK WORKS : ECLECTICISM

" The areas of material of Robert Ryman, the fussiness of Roy Lichtentsein, Géricault the tragedian, explosive Turner, Basquiat who blots the surface with its tripes, Greco and its long long bodies in ecstasy, mystical Caspar David Friedrich, Keith Haring and the power of its lines, freedom of Jackson Pollock, Matisse, Van Gogh and Gaugin, Münch, Georges Rouault, the lights of Mark Rothko, the great Andy Goldworthy in the fresh wind, Miquel Barcelo's happenings, Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages and Antoni Tapiès, Francis Bacon of course but prehistoric art too, Murnau, Blaise Cendrars poetries obviously...

I principally work painting, but also photographic pictures, sounds and videos. The report with material interests me, to crush colour physically on the canvas. What counts, it is the notion of freedom : you can represent everything, even nearly, even if it's not reality. It is not the problem there. What matters in the last analysis, it is to make. Make work every day. The job to be followed blends in on that from now, everything is course. We are on the way, and it is there that pleasure is. First of all, make. "

ABOUT THE FUTURE

There are thousand things he'd like to draw, paint, experiment, or play... and he will. But his next aim is to draw and build by himself for his growing family a wooden house with straw bales and lime, leading his future son to the painting, the ocean and the surfing ... to continue to be in phase with his convictions, like the old Montaigne wrote !

The series « The Beach » is available at the Galerie Artémise, 1 rue Alain Gerbault 35800 Dinard, FRANCE, ph 00332 99 16 98 93, nice gallery which represents him, or on his website http://fabricerehel.com/