His works challenge, seduce, sometimes disturb.
Their structure is unusual. A succession of slightly sketched grids such as windows or grids, where each square opens onto a transparent space, nevertheless inhabited, seem to emerge as traces of memory, snippets of desires, memories, having encouraged the artist to transcribe and transmit in the immediate future the emotion felt. The sometimes airy and fragile aspect of the moment, such as "Papillon", or the linear, horizontal and assertive impression, such as "Sequence IV", take possession of the canvas.
Endowed with a great sensitivity, the artist is also caught by surfaces such as skins. Alive, breathable, sweaty, they absorb, relax, react to the touch, as a means of communication, an essential element in the eyes of Georges Nadra.
His research also leads him to a questioning between truths, lies, deceptions, authenticity. The unfinished aspect of some works, such as a question mark, could play the role of "introduction". Conversely, powerful contrasts clash and exacerbate, especially between surface and depth, full and empty, transparency and opacity, light and shadow, raw canvas and embossed paper. Finesse of the execution often carried out in charcoal, lightness of the paper, sometimes suspended in space, rigor of the structure, surfaces animated by floating human elements, the register and the richness of the content are infinite.
Light, - white being often privileged - is another aspect of Georges Nadra's work, especially with the astonishing achievements on paper, embossed, inflated, - worked both on the front and back -, to which are added, for the canvases, the brown of linen and black. However, in tune with life, the rainbow, hope, dream, traces of yellow, red, blue, - bright and acidic - illuminate and warm here and there the dark fields.
The works of Georges Nadra, loaded with meaning, do not leave unscathed and open this space of light to which everyone aspires, but are also a source of deep questions, plunging their roots into the reality of our world. Magnificent, confusing works, full of mystery where the human is omnipresent.
Do not miss a memorable encounter with the artist and his work.
Georges Nadra, a French national born in 1959, has lived and worked in Paris since 1986. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (E.N.S.B.A.) in 1989, after graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Beyrouth in 1984, and after obtaining a one-year scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Pérouse in 1979.
The work of Georges Nadra has been shown in about twenty solo exhibitions and as many group exhibitions, in France (including the renowned salons of Montrouge and Réalités Nouvelles), Switzerland (Meyrin, Martigny, Montreux, Lausanne), Canada, Germany, Denmark and Italy. In Paris he was represented by the galleries Brigitte Schéhadé, Véronique Smagghe and Samagra. As part of international contemporary art fairs, he won the 2nd Eurostratège ST-ART prize in Strasbourg and was represented by Galerie Raphaël 12 at Art-Paris and Art-Fair in Cologne as well as by Atelier Pasnic at FIAC in Paris. His works are in numerous public and private collections, in Germany, Canada, United States, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland.
On the cover: "Triad en solo", 2006, mixed media on linen, 88 x107 cm
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