Fureur polyglotte et Joies sauvages

13.03.25 - 20.05.25 

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G. Renard's paintings are reminiscent of cave art, surrealist paintings, fauvism, comic strips, art brut and more. The more we try to define these works, the more they elude us, they remain enigmatic and defy interpretation.

Butterflies, boots, toads, hands, feet, snakes, pipes, garbage bags, elephants, basset hounds and other “friendly souls” inhabit the canvas, like the residual images of a carnivalesque zodiac. These pure, symbolically stripped presences stretch their veils over hallucinatory painted firmaments.

The singularity of this work lies in its wild, disarming sincerity, which defies the auguries of the fortune-teller and/or the landmarks of art history. The canvases tell us of this feverish newspeak that irradiates the viewer with its multiple possibilities. They remind us that joy is made of little things, and that the space for play is certain.