Paintings by Gilles Rieu
May 8 - 27, 2009
Exhibition Duration: May 8
to May 27, 2009
Born in Saint Cere, France in 1953, Gilles Rieu, worked 20 years as a social worker with destitute children and adults before starting his career as a full time artist in 1994. Experiences and imageries from his first career definitely have helped in enriching his career as an artist.
Rieu travelled a lot and his exhibitions cover different parts of France, Athens in Greece, Quebec City and Montreal in Canada, Jerusalem in Israel, New York and San Francisco in the U.S.A., Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Kyoto in Japan and Guangzhou in China.
Encounters in his travels to these various cities have all ended up in his paintings.
For this French May exhibition, Notes of Eastern Dreams, Rieu especially did 20 canvases. He named the main part of the exhibits – Hong Kong, yet the paintings bear no obvious visual resemblance. They were notes of his dreams and experiences out east in Vietnam, Japan and China, especially those from Guangzhou where he stayed for a short duration two years ago.
Rieu once defended that his works were not abstract though some people might view them that way.
His paintings, in fact, are full of imageries and
messages, lots of
details, lots of figures and lots of faces in different expressions.
When they are studied carefully, the contents are abundant in all sorts
of imageries.
Due to a serious illness the artist cannot attend the opening reception.
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