Peintures et Dessins - Richard Peduzzi

"You never recover from your childhood. That is why yesterday, today, tomorrow, here, there, elsewhere, in an obsessive round, the quays of Le Havre reappear in Richard's work.

The mist of the Channel erases all reality, erases the contours of these urban landscapes of ruins crushed by the breath of war or by the failure of industrial eras, gives birth to other forms, dreamlike ones. His numerous facades-decors, a sort of signature, are like those left standing in the fields of rubble of bombed cities. This endless confrontation with his past leads him to the invention of a pictorial language, declined first in black and gray, then in color, under an infinite stylistic variety of spaces, times, formats and supports.

Richard seizes these interstices that separate the worlds of the real and the imaginary. The sea is never absent, not for its distances, but for the moon or the sun to rise there, for night or sea birds to fly there, for boats to sail there. Humans have little or no place in these dreams drawn in pencil, sometimes underlined with a stroke of color, dawn or dusk. They are always small silhouettes, "little men", a kind of undersized tightrope-walking commas. Perhaps the reflection of the artist who will say, after the shock of Patrice Chéreau's death, "I lost my balance". The artist as a tightrope walker, the definition is tempting." 

Excerpt from the text by Martine Kahane

limited edition of 80 copies

stock number: NB685