From March 21 to May 17, 2025, Galerie La Forest Divonne unveils a new series of paintings by Vincent Bioulès in an exhibition entitled Évasion.
“The first painting in this exhibition is an open window that makes you want to go outside and wander through my memories of travel and childhood and contemplate space, the immensity of the sky and the clouds….” says Vincent Bioulès about this new series.
Vincent Bioulès, an outstanding painter and emblematic figure of French painting since the 1970s, presents here a set of 13 new paintings in which the artist offers us a veritable lesson in cheerful, joyful oil painting, with an immense freedom that alternates between thick, sometimes almost pointillist brushstrokes and large flat tints, testifying to his constantly renewed vitality and extraordinary fertility. Bioulès marvels again and again at the power of nature, the variety of its colors and lights, and shares his pleasure in painting. In the paintings in this exhibition, entitled “ Evasion ”, Bioulès summons up the landscapes and places that form the “space of his soul”: the sea, the windows open onto nature that lead to reverie, the mountain ranges that surround his native Montpellier, his “ Bioulésian ” clouds in the shape of rocks that resemble mountains.
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NOMINATED FOR THE BNP PARIBAS BANQUE PRIVÉE PRIZE: A FOCUS ON FIGURATIVE PAINTING IN FRANCE
In collaboration with Art Paris, BNP Paribas Banque Privée wishes to strengthen its support for artists on the French scene. With an endowment of €40,000, this year’s prize will be awarded to one of the artists in the thematic focus Immortal: A Focus on Figurative Painting in France, devised by Amelie Adamo and Numa Hambursin.
As part of this program, La Forest Divonne gallery is presenting a group of emblematic paintings by Vincent Bioulès. A key artist on the French scene since the 1970s. Bioulès has always marveled at the power of nature and the variety of its colors and light, and his works offer us a veritable lesson in cheerful, joyful painting, testifying to his ceaselessly renewed vitality.