Water Memory 18 Print

BIOGRAPHY Yannick Fournié was born in 1972 in the South of France. After enrolling at the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, he eventually decided to join the french army. His quest for identity, and the lack of a military father absent from his life, compelled him to enrol in the parachute regiment. He stayed there for three years. This experience, although emotionally very powerful, only partially fulfilled his expectations. Taken with freedom and in search of new experiences, he pursued a career in sport. In 2011, he eventually gave in to the nagging and unappeased need to paint. Twenty years of an intensely lived life were required to wean him off his quest for meaning. Alone in front of the canvas in his studio, Yannick Fournié has uncompromisingly painted subjects that appeal to him, worlds into which he injects strength and inwardness. Yannick Fournié, a French artist born in 1972, is a painter whose talent transcends the boundaries of contemporary figuration. Splitting his time between Biarritz and Lisbon, these two places of residence seem to be an endless source of inspiration for his work. His painting, imbued with poetry, serves as a contemplative testimony to the world around him. Yannick Fournié's canvases are a skillful blend of enigmatic portraits and scenes captured like stolen moments of profound intimacy. Each brushstroke seems to tell a story, inviting the viewer to delve into the delicate and nuanced universe of the artist.