Cédrix Crespel French, b. 1974
Living and working in Guérande, France, Cédrix Crespel's painting is eminently linked to his life, to that of a man whose language of love and relationship to the sensual have constantly been questioned, broken down. The artist declines in his paintings different representations of femininity and reinvents the codes of desire.
In the mid-90s, he abandoned academic drawing, left the pencil and its line, to imagine a new figurative vitality. The elegance of the gesture translated by a vascular outline and by vibrant flat areas of color suggests the curves where the eye is invited to dive. For four years now, Cédrix Crespel has engaged in a (photographic) correspondence with his wife. Thus, his work resonates with the source of creation and what it gives birth to. An entity was born, contemporary, singular and whole, the fruit of twenty years of work and reflection. In his latest works, he deconstructs his relationship to representation to show a painting imbued with sensation and maturity.
His works have been included in numerous collections including those of His Majesty Mohammed VI, the Ricobonon Collection, the Louis Vuitton Official Collection (United States), and have been exhibited in France, Morocco, Belgium, China, South Korea, and the United States.
"Abstraction? Figuration? The two spaces coexist here without ignoring each other with the hope of a possible symbiosis between what the painter and the lover know, what they can say and everything that vibrates beyond exhausted words. Because the image freezes within the limits of the form. However, time has told us, love is a dance where the fluidity of each new movement calls for possibilities, suggestion and resonances of the eternal." - Cédrix Crespel
