Gerard Schleich

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Gerard Schleich - 37 years - Belgian
Gerard Schleich by leaving his native Belgium in 2004, changed life radically.  He settled in the South of France and devotes himself today entirely to painting.  Born at the end of the Sixties, his awakening for painting was late and his first tests approach the current minimalist and flirtent readily with an inspiration of the ARTE Povera, mixing with painting with the objects with the daily newspaper (fabric, string, coffee, vegetable seeds), marrying different textures like the acrylic resin, sand, oils, the paper and of course of the ground and ochre pigments.  By associating the techniques of C-W communication stuck, of embossing and of traditional joining, he builds reliefs on plane surfaces to which he gives a tactile aspect.  One finds a prevalence of the tone heats like the colors ochres, yellows, brown, and a series of blue since the painter settled in Provence, with with dimensions of Toulon, two years ago.  Inspired by the sea and the sun, he uses natural pigments more and more thus underlining his will to be based definitively in this area of adoption, and to take part in the defense of his natural inheritance.  The artist creates abstract art, released from any doctrines.  What animates him is a principle of arrangements and improvisations which rise from meetings with people, places, techniques, images and cultures different.  The painter, with his brushes, his fingers, of the unexpected objects, uses varied keys and creates intentionally or not, of the realistic or imperceptible images, marrying with talent of the nuances of colors.