The Consistency of a Whole: The Paintings of Pierre Boisseau

Driven by the desire to create what he calls “the consistency of a whole,” Pierre Boisseau paints in order to create a correspondence between musical expression, painting, sculpture, and society. Originally an architect and even named the Prix de Rome of Architecture in 1964, he wanted more from life and decided to give up a promising international career in architecture. “Like a ship,” Boisseau explains, “under bad wind and hostile currents, in search of new horizons.” Shortly thereafter, he began to design fabric patterns, securing Yves Saint Laurent as his first client. His acrylic paintings pursue the same vibrancy and exploration of pattern, appearing at times like close-cropped graffiti triptychs.

Boisseau is inspired by the recollection of lost objects through the dominant memory of color. With his brushes, he paints symbols: subliminal glyphs wrapped in a color scheme. Boisseau hopes to compose his colors as one would music. “The organization of sounds and colors can produce all kinds of feelings,” he says, “without the help of speech or of representational art.” Summarizing his work, Boisseau turns to word association. “Game,” he says. “Color, harmony, composition, movement, listening, poetry, atmosphere.”

Pierre Boisseau lives and works in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in France.

Exhibition Dates: December 3, 2016 – December 23, 2016

Reception: Thursday December 8, 2016, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6

Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York

Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Pierre_Boisseau.aspx

Featured Artists:

Sensorial Perspectives

Volkmar Jesiek  |  Graciela Fortunata  |  Juan Salazar  |  Cesar Alvarez  |  Anna Des  |  Adam Craemer  |  Pierre Boisseau  |  Manoushak Azad  |  Mihalis Papakalodouka

About the Exhibition

Sensorial Perspectives: Experience of the Body

This December Agora Gallery presents Sensorial Perspectives, an exciting new collective exhibition that works to immerse the viewer, one physical sensation at a time. Five painters, two mixed-media artists, and one photographer offer work that challenge the traditional understanding of art as a purely visual medium. No fewer than four abstract artists are featured; they share a skillful use of bold colors and large-scale shapes but each differs in the emotional appeal to viewers. These painters show us the different ways color can shoot straight past the eyes to raise hairs on the skin and cause tingles beneath it. The exhibition's representational works also aim to make the viewer experience rather than look. One artist puts realistic figures against backgrounds of bubbling, exquisite clouds of reds and blues that communicate speed and movement. Another offers sharply contrasted, multicolor portraits that convey the presence of another person. The exhibition's photography show us the world from a human's eye point of view, with no more context and no more clarity than a person walking through would possess.