MICHEL PEROT

Artist’s statement “The paintings presented here are void of the human figure as the drama is situated in the landscape itself, shaped by traces of human occupation. These subjects, often disgraced, or already condemned, need, for me, to be painted in their grotesque state. The large format canvases become a means, by rendering the neglible significant, of allowing the antiquated form of landscape painting a contemporary relevance. Painting maintains the same impact for a fragmentary subject as photography. It’s by the adopted process that ...