Sketched, painted, engraved, casted, “ Oil and bronze flowers” is a new stage of experimentation for Charles de Montaigu, a way to penetrate even deeper into the heart of the mystery of himself and the human being, to explore the ephemeral, the instant, through a theme that preoccupies him for several years. Carefully observed in all its complexity, he is drawing the flower with Chinese ink, in multiple aspects and dimensions, from the monumental to the very little, always with the same fineness, the same finger-touch, executing fine scores, traces, hachure, in order to perceive, feel the beauty, the delicacy, the fragility, and insufflate to the flower on a piece of paper or on the canvas, a different life, far beyond time of seasons.

Altogether impregnated with admiration, desires of sublimation, discoveries, the unknown, the artist is like an unquenchable traveller; the flower embodies all the dreams, the tremendous instants, the liberty of being, but also the metamorphosis, the flower changing, fading, disappearing.

The artist talks to the flower :
“It is the hidden face of you
That I want to catch”.
Will he reach it ?
Every quest has its majesty

Saysanasak na Champassak [Vénérable Jayadhammo]


Among drawing and painting, the flower is looking also for a way into metal, some pieces having been casted in bronze. Strange paradox that a flower, agitated by the wind and the rain, transformed by the sun and the passage of time, presents itself set into metal. A new experience tempted by the artist, who first of all is a sculptor, before being a painter, an engraver or a drawer. An invitation to a new discovery!

At the occasion of the exhibition, publication of a catalogue (21 x 23,5 cm, 56 pages, 24 illustrations, bio-bibliography of the artist, texts by Saysanasak na Champassak, Danielle Junod-Sugnaux and Rainer Michael Mason)

Charles de Montaigu lives and works in Laconnex near Geneva. Since 1973, he exhibits regularly in Switzerland, Europe and in the United States. Laureate of the “Bourse fédérale” of Fine Arts (1983). Award price of the Foundation for the Graphic Arts in Switzerland (1994). Acquisition and installation of Athys III (Iroko wood sculpture) in the Chicago Athaeneum Park at Schaumburg, Art under the Stars, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago. His works are included in many public and private international collections.


Dr.Danielle Junod-Sugnaux

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