Gilles Teboul

For twenty years, Gilles Teboul continues the distancing of the painter’s gesture. With his recent work, he goes as far as to abolish any gestural implication of the artist. He pours a colored resin directly on the paintings laid flat balanced on blocks without his intervening in its trajectory. Gravity gradually carries out its work, while the artist, as in the photography, waits patiently for the given moment, when the opaque acrylic binder is definitively fixed, the moment of revelation. The work is almost entirely created at the moment of its conception. The artist is divested of his actions and set at a distance from his realizations. In other words, the physical act of painting gives way to a procedure where color, in the purist acheiropoïetic tradition, distributes itself on the canvas. This Greek term means ‘not made by the hand of man, miraculously’. At the same time, he has developed a photographic series in reference to painting. He questions the « institutional » discourse which has often announced the theoretical death of painting. By photographing his worn and dried painting material, the bottoms of pots, canvases, crusts, opercula palettes, etc... accumulated and archived, he recycles them and in a resurrectional gesture–gives them a new life.

Gilles Teboul b. 1961, lives and works in Paris.

Solo exhibitions include: L’art dansles chapelles curated by Eric Suchére , Pontivy, France (2019);Nancy Toomey FineArt, San Francisco, USA (2018); 5UN7 curated by Marc Henri Garcia, Bordeaux,France (2018); L.A Art Show, Galerie Bruno Massa, Los Angeles, USA (2018); Volta13 Basel, Galerie

Bruno Massa, Bâle, Suisse (2017); L.A Art Show, Galerie BrunoMassa, Los Angeles, USA (2017); Galerie Univer, Paris (2016); Galerie Univer, Paris(2013); Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot, Clamart Galerie Univer