Gilbert Reinhardt

 

Gilbert Reinhardt! Exited through the doors of his existence on November 21, 1997, re-entered through the windows of institutionscultural attentive to the singular difficult to classify. Those ofPully Art Museum, welcoming in 2014 a donation of his works prepared by a foundation bearing his name. And those of L’Estrée roprazienne today, as part of an exhibition-sale conducive to the lasting influence of his work.

Thus continues the artist now set in his mostbeautiful posthumous. In the thread of his style while he lived,overplaying all his appearances in front of others, dressed in material elegance ranging from shoes to tie, and moreover an accomplished verbal swashbuckler, to keep himself all the more at a distance from his anxieties constantly simmering in the depths of his mind. indoor stoves.

And in the thread too, Reinhardt, of his plastic work. Whoalso balance royal gold or chic ellipseup to the formulations of the erosion which eats away faces and silhouettes, of the fire which consumes valor or of the being which becomes its own absence. All these rangesexpressive expressions unfolded from the large canvas to the small lids of boxes where tubes of oil paint had been housed. Rejoicing, tenderness and salvation.  Christophe Gallaz