After a first exhibition of Nicolas Delprat's work in Belgium, the gallery is pleased to present "Stage Two", the second part of "Appearances of Light”.
On the ground floor, the gallery presents two installations with the evocative titles "James, Fragmentation" and "Dan Evolution 4". The works evoke the themes of fragmentation and sequence, establishing a narration. On the first floor, the group of paintings, "Dynamique 1 & 2", "James, Put Back 3" and "Dan", broaden the debate and lead us to consider the values of light, brushstrokes and the out-of-focus projection in painting, from the art history perspective.
By reinvesting the field of painting and through the repetition of the motif, Nicolas Delprat attempts to connect the gap between the memory of a real experience and its possible representation. Proceeding in a way that is both consecutive and discontinuous (the same motif can be reworked at different times), the artist invites us to think about the construction and the work of memory as a "phenomenon of reconstitution*" (*reference to Michel de Certeau's "L'écriture de l'Histoire"), which is conceivably a personal interpretation.
Nicolas Delprat's paintings often translate memories of lights: forgotten, remembered or imagined lights, ultimately reinterpreted by the painting. For the artist, his works are the beginning of a narrative, of a future of the image that the spectator is free to fantasise.
