Gray-born Christian Fumagalli will be spending three months at the Musée Baron Martin, where he will be exhibiting around thirty of his recent work...
Born in Gray, Christian Fumagalli will be spending three months at the Musée Baron Martin, where he will be exhibiting around thirty of his most recent works, enabling us to gain a better understanding of his pictorial path, discovering his new interests and the way in which he draws his inspiration and invents the worlds that characterise him. Some older works, like milestones, reveal his appropriation and disappropriation of certain themes, his philosophical or spiritual implications, his references to thought, his way of grasping painting and its place in time.
After training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Professor Jean Ricardon, Fumagalli moved towards his truth in the wake of the Italian movement of metaphysical painting imbued with melancholy, which he adjusted to his own obsessions and skeins of desire. The sustained use of backgrounds and formats, decontextualised fragments of architecture, atomised or vainly wrestling figures, or figures walled off in an inner solitude, powerful geometric forms bristling the surface of reality or rolling in a sky that does not speak its name, but also incandescent horses offending pigments, lights and actions characterise his entry into painting.
In a dynamic perspective, this exhibition is not separated from his constant professional and friendly exchanges and his teaching activity in Besançon. Alongside his guest of honour - the painter Xavier Rousseau, unveiled through a dozen works that mark the stages of his presence - are a dozen of his students, each revealing through a work a state of their personal research: Alexandre Buisson, Damien Clavez, Gérard Dordain, Hélène Dupré, Rémi Dziedzic, Corinne Gueguen, Danielle Hsiung, Anne Marquis, Herna Meltzer, Alain Michaud, Philippe Richard and Vinciane Rouvroy.
It's the perfect opportunity to discover the interests, practices, personal territories, projects and life paths that bring contemporary painting to our region and our times.
After training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Professor Jean Ricardon, Fumagalli moved towards his truth in the wake of the Italian movement of metaphysical painting imbued with melancholy, which he adjusted to his own obsessions and skeins of desire. The sustained use of backgrounds and formats, decontextualised fragments of architecture, atomised or vainly wrestling figures, or figures walled off in an inner solitude, powerful geometric forms bristling the surface of reality or rolling in a sky that does not speak its name, but also incandescent horses offending pigments, lights and actions characterise his entry into painting.
In a dynamic perspective, this exhibition is not separated from his constant professional and friendly exchanges and his teaching activity in Besançon. Alongside his guest of honour - the painter Xavier Rousseau, unveiled through a dozen works that mark the stages of his presence - are a dozen of his students, each revealing through a work a state of their personal research: Alexandre Buisson, Damien Clavez, Gérard Dordain, Hélène Dupré, Rémi Dziedzic, Corinne Gueguen, Danielle Hsiung, Anne Marquis, Herna Meltzer, Alain Michaud, Philippe Richard and Vinciane Rouvroy.
It's the perfect opportunity to discover the interests, practices, personal territories, projects and life paths that bring contemporary painting to our region and our times.