PIERRE RIOLLET - PARIS PLAGE IV

Digigraphie (giclée print) number 10 of 30 copies.
Limited edition of 30 copies on Hahnemühle William Turner 310g paper from an original oil on canvas painting 100 by 100 from 2019.
Signature at bottom right. The numbering at bottom left. Signed and numbered on the back.
A complete certificate of authenticity, filled out and signed, will also be provided to the purchaser.

Depiction of a café in the Marais.
A man is seated in front of a window opened to the sea. A wink that slides reality toward the imaginary.

About Pierre

Pierre Riollet graduated from the École d’Art Auguste Renoir in Paris in 1983.
After 20 years spent in advertising as an art director, he decides to devote himself exclusively to painting. Following a trip to the United States in 1987, he begins work on the theme of New York facades and their cast shadows, inspired by American hyperrealists.

Always captivated by light, his work takes a new direction a few years later, on the theme of passages. The contrast between shadow and light induced by this subject is the hallmark of this period. The dark frame magnifies external brightness and guides the gaze toward a dazzling opening, letting the imagination drift toward light. Beyond the pictorial aspect, it is also the symbolism of the strength of transition that is expressed in these passages.

After long focusing on all kinds of backlighting in cafés, urban atmospheres, nocturnal and snowy landscapes, portraits… his painting now leans toward reflections, notably of the sea. Always with the same care given to chromatic accuracy, Pierre is today passionate about the decomposition of light and its interaction. Through the use of brushstrokes close to abstraction when the gaze zooms in on details, his canvases—mostly large-format—exude a vibrational force of great intensity.

Pierre Riollet regularly exhibits in numerous galleries and contemporary art fairs. His works are now represented in many private collections.

His journey is a bit like a progressive zoom that, from canvas to canvas, through all these passages, moves toward the light.