Daniel Ducarmel - La première Porsche 911

Title: The First Porsche 911
Oil on cardboard canvas
Diamond dust embedded
Dimension 30 x 40 cm
Sold with a black frame

Statement

Daniel Ducarmel develops an oil painting at the border of landscape, abstraction, and cosmic vision. His research explores the links between the living, matter, and the universe. Through compositions where sky, water, color and energy are in constant transformation, he imagines the landscape as a space that is both physical and interior. His approach rests on a central idea: every being carries a part of the universe within itself. His works thus question the relationship between the infinitely large and the individual, between what is visible and what remains invisible.

Artistic Approach

Daniel Ducarmel, born in 1990 in Cayenne, French Guiana, develops an oil painting situated at the border of landscape, abstraction, and cosmic vision.

His practice focuses on the relations that unite the living, matter, and the immensity of the universe. For him, the landscape is less a subject to be depicted than a space of transformation: sky, water, matter, light and organic forms meet in a continuous motion. Color becomes a vector of energy, while the painting gesture constructs spaces where perception oscillates between a recognizable world and an imaginary territory.
At the heart of this research lies a fundamental idea: every being carries a part of the universe within. The universe is therefore not only external to the individual; it is also contained in the living. This conception runs through his entire work and finds a particular expression in his animal representations.

In a work devoted to a portrait of a man, the artist writes his signature inside the portrait itself.

This sign, associated with the universe, transforms the depicted body into a symbolic space. The portrait becomes the site of a meeting between the individual and the infinite: a way of suggesting that what appears external and immense can also exist at the heart of the living.

This relationship between microcosm and macrocosm extends into his landscapes. The skies, clouds, sea stretches, and deep blues become mental spaces as much as physical ones. Between figuration and abstraction, the artist does not seek to faithfully reproduce a landscape, but to translate its forces, vibrations, and inner dimension.

Exhibitions

2019 Paris 3 (gallery, Rue du Vertbois)
2020 Paris 3 (gallery, Rue du Vertbois)
2021 Paris 3 (gallery, Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth)
2022 Rochefort (gallery, Rue Cochon-duvivier)
2023 Rochefort (gallery, Rue Cochon-duvivier)
2024 Paris 3 (gallery Rue du Vertbois)
2025 Paris 17 (Renaissance Hotel, Rue Wagram)
2026 Île de Ré