François Speich

His conviction is that figuration, int the sense of a representation of a reality, is a decoy. Kandinsky explains that a form is only recognized by a child after his apprenticeship, which makes him say that he sees a chair, for example. The first time the child sees a chair, hi doesn’t know what it is, he learns it.
Abstraction or non-figuration, is the use of objects that are not identified a priori, and that the in-depth viewer discovers and learns to know.
But figuration is also very often a set of objects, of spots, without relation to a reality ; but whose assembly makes us think of something known.
His paintings, figurative or not, have four points in common.
Three are formal, the composition that balances the image, the light and finally the search for harmonies of colors.
The fourth is that they are always the result of an encounter and an emotion. In figurative paintings, with a landscape or a model, always painted on the spot, in the moment, without a later recovery in order to preserve intact the emotion of the moment.
In non-figurative paintings, with one or more graphic objects that spontaneously form on the canvas, and become the subject of an inner encounter, more spiritual and reflective.
His works are presen...

François SPEICH, followed the drawing courses of Pierre Guyénot, Grand Prix of Rome and professor of drawing at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, France.
He then completed his artistic training by studying watercolour with François Oberfalcer, a painter and engraver of Czech origin, the living model with sculptor Jean-Claude Athané at the Arts Décoratifs, and finally acrylic and oil with Belgian painter Joseph Ghin.

2019
12/11/2019 - 24/11/2019 : Exposition personnelle à la galerie 3F à Paris
05/10/2019 - 28/10/2019 : Salon d'automne de Lunéville
25/04/2019 - 29/04/2019 / Fabriano in acquarello - Membre de la communauté française
05/02/2019 - 22/02/2019 : 42ème SALON de Printemps de L’AIVA à VILLE D'AVRAY - FRANCE
Boutique de l'Hôtel Le Phébus à Joucas - FRANCE www.lephebus.com
Castello di Montalto - Castelnuovo Berardenga - ITALIE

2018 and before
Art Capital 2018 - Paris Grand Palais
Salon d'automne de Lunéville 2018
Art Capital 2017 - Paris Grand Palais
Propriété Caillebotte à Yerres 2017 ArplastiX
Galerie Béatrice Hodent de Broutelles 2017 ArplastiX
Salon d'automne de Lunéville 2017
La Maison des Dauphins - La Tour du Pin - 2016
Salon de Villa OTTONE- Portoferraio Isola d'Elba - 2015 2016
Mairie de Boulogne-Billancourt 2016 - 2018
Galerie Les amours de Pélagie - Ile d'Yeu - France
Restaurant Calanova - Isola d'Elba - ITALY
Espace Landowski - Boulogne-Billancourt - France
Ecole Polytechnique - Palaiseau - France
Artistes à la Bastille - Paris - France
Mairie Paris 12 - Paris - France
Ramatuelle - France