Gérard Thalmann. Du pigment au pixel, traversées, Exhibition catalogue, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer, 2017 (20 euros)
Born in 1944 in Chavannes-près-Renens, The Swiss Confederation. Has lived and worked in Paris since 1979.
Died in Paris in 2012.
The canvas is for Gérard Thalmann a place of transition, a chain of dreams. He paints as others may open windows to bring in the air: a circulation and a change of state. Set on the edge of two worlds, the painting feeds an intense dialectic: the opening and the wall, air and matter, an inside and outside, the space and the canvas. Thalmann passes dream and reality through here, and thus the painting merges with the window.
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