Jean-François DUBREUIL (born 1946) - Lot 34

Jean-François DUBREUIL (born 1946) Quantitative reading of a news medium, global analysis of front-page references, La Croix n°34336, 1996 Oil on canvas mounted on panel. Artist's label on back. 20 x 25 cm Provenance : Galerie Lahumière, Paris. "Starting point: the printed news medium, whether weekly or daily. Each painting is the result of a plastic translation, not of the content of these newspapers, but of the surfaces occupied by their columns. Color responds to the same kind of constraints. Basically, an immutable grid: red for advertisements, black for photos, gray or white for anything not highlighted by the other colors." (Jean-Marc Huitorel, Jean-François Dubreuil, Éditions du Regard, 2022) "Jean-François Dubreuil has built one of the few contemporary works that weaves an intense link with the pictorial ideas of modern art. His entire body of work stems from a single, definitive and irreversible choice. Each painting is a faithful, a-personal reworking of the visual structure of a newspaper at a certain point in its existence." (Robert Fleck, Jean-François Dubreuil, press review, Lahumière, 2001)