ADRIEN JUTARD

Adrien Jutard was born in 1979 in the Allier region of France. He studied visual arts at the Petit Collège in Lyon and then at the Arts-Déco in Strasbourg, graduating in 2002. He then left France for the Basel region, where he continued his studies in a private painting course and began researching a non-figurative pictorial language. From 2006 onwards, he regularly exhibited his work on his own and in groups. In 2009, he won the “Art et Bâtiment” competition and created his first monumental sculpture. He thus officially acquired Swiss status as an independent artist, and two years later was awarded a cantonal prize in 2011. Since then, he has been experimenting with colour using a technique he has perfected: bonding coloured pigments directly into layers of high-gloss resin.

The artist, who is first and foremost a painter, has been developing his formal language for several decades using the most contemporary products (resins, paints, pigments), which he discovers and uses as he sees fit. He sees in the chemical evolution of the pictorial medium possible amplifications of his gesture, of his expression. The ultra-glossy, technical aspect of his surfaces is not an end in itself, but a means of getting ever closer to the question that constantly underpins his work: what is painting?