Guillaume Bresson
Born in Toulouse in 1982, Guillaume Bresson lives and works in Paris. His work has been shown in many exhibits in France and abroad, such as in Dynasty in the Palais de Tokyo in 2010 and at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 2011; Lumière Noire at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in 2013; La Belle Peinture II, at the French Institute of Bratislava, Slovakia; or in 2015, in Desdémone, entre désir et désespoir, at the Arab World Institute in Paris. He is represented by the gallery Nathalie Obadia (Paris-Brussels) and accompanied by Alain Berland, artistic adviser for the exhibition in the église des Célestins. His work, inspired by the great tradition of figurative narrative painting, is based on a brilliant oscillation between an apparent desire for visual realism and a contemplative ideal. From the Toulouse archways to the strange circular shopping centre of his neighbourhood, from the fast food restaurant around the corner to his own kitchen, from the bodies of his friends to those of his family members, his painting feeds on what surrounds him.That being said, Guillaume Bresson isn't a realist painter, nor is he a painter of everyday life. His body of work builds a complex and imaginary temporality, in which the past reinvents the present of painting.
