The Trees By François Dilasser

Oil on canvas by François Dilasser. Signed on the back Autodidact, François Dilasser paints since childhood then carries on several trades before devoting himself entirely to painting. Early on Gauguin (The White Horse), then by Roger Bissière and, more generally, by the informal abstraction of the Paris School, he found his style and manner in the early 1970s. From then on, he regularly exhibited in the galleries (La Roue, Jacob, Clivages, Montenay in Paris, La Navire and Oniris in Brittany, The Third Eye in Bordeaux), in museums and art centers. Transcending accepted categories (abstraction / figuration, portraits / landscapes / architectures), a very precise investor in the space of the painting, he produces the singular work of a colorist, doubled by a line designer who is falsely hesitant, subtle and vibrant. His favorite medium is paper, including for large formats that he then rubs on canvas stretched on a frame. Most often working together (Fire Boats, Gardens, Watchers, Hands ...) he also revisits some masters of the past (Franz Halz and his Regents, Cezanne and his Bather). The work, both drawn and painted, is struck by a very personal expressiveness that testifies to a vision of the world whose framework operates a constant back-and-forth between the observation of the daily context and the production of generic forms that it constantly reinventing