"Forget it all to keep just one detail, the one with meaning."
A figurative painter, Gérard Schlosser is interested in details, in the infinitesimal, in the intimate. From his first paintings, the artist chooses figuration: body fragments painted in flat areas and surrounded by black. These works are reminiscent of the experiments of Pop Art artists. As early as 1967, he systematically glued his sand canvases, which gave colored surfaces a very particular vibration: each small grain adds the depth of his modeling with a part of shadow and a part of the light. His practice of photography influenced his work, from the 1970s, and he began to use the technique of photomontage in some of his works. Schlosser creates works that each tell a story, or at least bits and pieces of stories that the viewer can piece together. The title extends the work mentally and indicates a way forward, a key to understanding for the viewer. His paintings are also like scenes that are frozen in time and which immortalize moments of everyday life.