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Jerome BOUTTERIN - Synapse
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Press release
Galerie Richard Paris is pleased to announce the representation of Jérôme Boutterin and his first solo exhibition entitled Synapse in the rue Saint-Claude space, from June 29 to July 27, 2024. Jérôme Boutterin presents a brand-new series of paintings since the publication of his monograph in 2022, which was accompanied by a solo show at Art Paris in 2023. The artist occupies a special place on the painting scene, with a style that is both embodied and programmatic. His approach combines the spontaneity of gestural freedom with simple protocols. He perfectly masters the space of the canvas, navigating harmoniously between empty and busy areas, his painting always unfolding through a particular richness of color.
Jérôme Boutterin’s recent paintings produce an unexpected synthesis of constants, emphasizing the tension between the lines and the networks, the surfaces and the masses. Here, painted surfaces mask segments of the arabesque network, paradoxically revealing other configurations buried within the same initial network. Two types of gesture confront each other: the interlacing is made by continuous, fluid, rather gentle gestures, while the accidental erasures, scratches and ‘synapses’ are produced by nervous gestures that seem to seek to erase or mask certain sequences. On this topic, the artist declares: “I’m interested in both energies. And I have to say that the destructive impulse of the ‘crossings out’ is very satisfying: on a pictorial level, it reserves great surprises in the mixtures and the chromatic accidents it generates… The subject is always connection and disconnection, how we come together and how we separate, that’s it. These are love stories. And bam! It shows how something exists alone and not alone at the same time…”.
Jérôme Boutterin’s painting favor a primordial relationship with the canvas, playing with its limits while continuously preserving the white surface as an element in its own, a dynamic space in the making.
In the catalog Brûler sa maison, the curator Gaël Charbau emphasizes: “Jérôme Boutterin’s works have this profusion that could be described as “vitalist”… This feeling that something really enlivens them comes from the gesture that is almost systematically present in his works. Not from the “existentialist” body gesture that engages the canvas in its entirety, but from the nervous movement that engages the forearm’s motricity alone, and which serves as much to salute as to showing the finger. In these canvases, it’s about an “uninhibited” gesture that finds its primary source just about everywhere: in comics, in great painting, in the kitchen, in the street, and perhaps more simply, I think, in life”.
Jérôme Boutterin lives and works in Paris. After studying art at the Villa Arson in Nice, and further graduating from the National School of Landscape in Versailles, he became a landscape architect before devoting himself to painting in the ‘90s. He teaches at the Versailles National School of Architecture. His recent solo exhibitions prior to Art Paris 2023 were in Brussels, in China, at Galerie Marc Minjauw, following the invitation of the French Institute and curator J. Zhen Chen, and at the Contemporary Art Center in Kerguéhennec, at the invitation of Olivier Delavallade. His work has recently been shown in group exhibitions such as Paint, Painting, Painter at SHED in Rouen, at the Contemporary Art Center in Meymac, and at the MAC-VAL in Vitry, as part of the Cherchez le garçon exhibition.