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France comes to India
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The experience of his numerous journeys in India, and particularly at Benares, marked an essential stage to his approach which places his paintings in the heart of a different culture, in a concentration close to the realm of meditation.
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Across the City brings together Thomas' experience of numerous journeys in Morocco, Lebanon, Togo, China, Argentina, Oman, Mali, Mauritania, USA, Cuba, Brazil and particularly India which marked an essential stage in his approach which places his paintings in the heart of a different culture, in a concentration close to meditation.
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The artist has studied in Ecole des beaux arts de Besancon and presently lives and works between Rio de Janeiro, Havana and Paris. He was in Kolkata for a residency program with Calcutta Arts Club in September 2012.
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The body movement organizes the drawing space in an existential process.
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The liveliness, its continuity, the magnitude of the movement give an originality to all these travel documentaries, album of memories but also a successful realization of' a choreographed performance in the urban place.
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He juxtaposes in figurative motif, landscapes, architectures, characters, the rubbing of real elements which are at his disposal around him.
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He uses his art as a link and a language to create contact with unknown spectators who witness the elaboration of his works.
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His drawings are Ink on Japanese rice paper scrolls 45 centimetres wide and sometimes up to 25 metres long which he unwinds as the progression of the drawing goes along, composing in a near-spontaneous way.
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