"I am emotional and passionate. I am not looking for a simplification nor a synthesis; I lead myself head-on, I must keep my totality. "
Charles Estienne said of René Duvillier that he’s "the poet of the elements." The artist, born in France in 1919, joined the art critic on the Breton coast in 1952. He discovered the sea, the crashing of the waves, the softness of the foam and the immensity of the sky. This great marine show is a source of upheaval, changing the artist’s work forever. His compositions play with colors and textures, constantly recalling his abstract and poetic vision of the ocean. The forms evoke the movements of nature, the swirls of wind and the bursts of the swell, as if to link his spirit to the immensity of the universe. He says he found in the sea "the movement and the gesture".