" For some, meditation is essential ... for me drawing is a necessity. Drawing is a form of meditation, it requires concentration, forces choices, and, finally, helps to forget oneself. "
A prolific artist, Gérard Traquandi has been developing since the 1990s a powerful and unique work, which never ceases to question the very practices of painting and sculpture. The painter aims to transcribe the sensations that his humble observation of nature gives him through a range of subtle colors supporting the modulations of light. Gérard Traquandi draws his iridescent, pearly, even sacred colors from his travels, his Queyras mountains, or even from the changing and acid colors of the mannerist painters of the sixteenth century who inspire him almost monochrome canvases with vivid, incandescent tones, capturing the look. From the Italian Renaissance, he also retains its spirituality, through the meditation provided by the experience of contemplation. Like his painting, Gérard Traquandi draws on the motif: flowers, trees, mountains, and clouds, but also baroque sculptures, chandeliers, bushes, figures ... He is attached to movements, to flows and eddies of curves and lines, thus revealing sensitive works where efflorescences and arabesques mingle.