Exhibition guide

The bodies that Vincent Guiro paints or draws or sculpts do not emerge, they erupt!

Visit details

  • Dates: From Tuesday June 16, 2026 to Wednesday July 1, 2026: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  • Venue: Galerie du Haut Pavé, 3 quai Montebello, Paris
  • Price: free
  • Audience: All audiences
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

sometimes supported or accelerated by humble plays of projected shadow, which we only see and feel: we cannot say that it is a woman's body, of several women - although that is obvious - it is more modestly a story of the body's turns, a body which no longer belongs solely to Guiro's vision, but to his hand, as if instead of drawing, of spreading the masses of charcoal, he never stopped He will remain marked by these years of training where the demands of classical choral singing will forge his character. not to caress its volume, to make it emerge from the sheet, to fix it at the exact moment when its irruption ends.

This seems even clearer in the watercolor treatments: the pencil line delimits the expectation of the space, its potential or virtual configuration, the color then gives it its carnal propulsion, the grain of its sensitive expression, its plastic capacity, its visual flexibility, its poetic power.

Intended to take over the family shoe store, he very early freed himself from thisA surge rises upwards, inviting a sublimation which tends to erase matter, its matter, while the irruption comes towards you and invades with the precision of its gesture, of its mass. You must try, without closing your eyes, to grasp these images with your hands, with your tactile sensitivity which gives them a force external to pure visibility, you must try to look through touches, just as he creates through touches of your fingers, of your hand.

Extract from: Jean-Paul MANGANARO, Confusion de genres, Paris, P.O.L., 2011, p. It is a question of treatment of volumes, of balance between volumes for each drawing, or painting or sculpture, which tends to signify either a posture, or a movement in itself or of itself, but saying that is not enough... The issue is more complex which happens between the sheet of paper, in the large drawings of naked bodies for example, where a powerful pencil line forcefully demarcates an area, a space of its own which an additional material, the charcoal, will fill with successive twists and turns, with areas of flesh which 587-588

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Concerning the Artist:

Jacques Guiraud was born in Nîmes on April 4, 1935. Orphaned at the age of seven, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon: he spent the time of the war at the accumulate and create the effect of this throw outside the sheet.

This irruption of the blow is no longer simply a visual flatness, it becomes sensitive and affective: it is not an effect of chiaroscuro, Guiro does not treat the volumes by symmetries or oppositions of shadow and light, he concentrates a material from which he makes a pure mass which he develops in a homogeneity without removing or adding almost anything.

This throw is so violent, management of Notre Dame de Fourvière.