"Beyond any simplification; the gesture is dazzling; instant

of energy suspended in time and which the painting welcomes. Asserts itself for

all a founding principle: total freedom of movement finally free of any link

external repository. The surface of the canvas becomes the support for the emergence of the

creative impulse of the artist; that it is translated by ample outburst having

value of signs (Hartung; Soulages ...); by scratched; scratched materials;

between traces and writings (Dubuffet; Tal Coat ...); through transparent liquidity

(Debré; Wou-Ki) or finally by the principles of serial development where chance

comes to replace the decisions of the artist (Hantaï).

Gestures; signs; traces; spaces. Figures of abstraction; Artothèque de Caen Collection