ADRIEN JUTARD

“Basecoat” is the English word inscribed on his paint pots. that Adrien Jutard chose for the title of his exhibition. It's a word he likes literally means “base layer”. Vocable from the pigment chemical industry, “basecoat” defines a range of vivid range of bright, pure colors designed to serve as a base for countless innumerable shades. It's a kind of “primary color”, as the jargon jargon calls a “primary color”, but transposed here for technical industrial applications. The artist, above all a painter, has been developing his formal language formal language using the most contemporary products (resins, paints, pigments) contemporary products (resins, paints, pigments) that he discovers and uses as he pleases. He sees the chemical evolution of the pictorial medium as a means of amplifying of his gesture and expression. The technical, high-gloss appearance of his surfaces is not an end in itself, but a means to an ever closer question that constantly underlies his work: what is painting? what is painting?