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Francois Glineur - between Comics and Classical Painting

François Glineur often refers to masterpieces of art history. Insatiably curious to discover new ways, he likes to amaze. He always succeeds in creating a kind of tension in his painting, whether through a conflict between phantasm and reality, fear and harmony, or through a fusion of the countless references from art history, street art, comics and classical painting. His figures draw on narrative figuration (Combas, Di Rosa, Guyomard) and comics (Hergé, Moebius, Edikafrom). With bold, exuberant brushstrokes and expansive colours, he weaves a captivating narrative painting in which the imaginary and the truth cross-fertilise to reveal a hidden surprise that does not reveal itself at first glance. His paintings are windows and gates that open onto wonderful and magical places, sometimes cruel but always enchanting - an escape into an infinitely expandable space that knows neither time nor borders because it has its roots in the miraculous. Passion, cunning, love that survives death, betrayal, heroism, everything that dispels, delights and nourishes is there, just let yourself be carried away.

© Francois Glineur, Amiens, August 2020