Jean-Noël Riou (born 1958), Élévation

Oil / wood, 140 x 70 cm, framed: 150 x 80 cm

Attached is a Certificate of the Artist and Yasnikovsky Art Gallery.
For the winner of the auction, additionally an Art Calendar for 2025 (A2 format) with Jaroslaw Jaśnikowski's paintings "Spaces of Surrealism" and a special edition of the 57-page French Magazine "Art Mag" dedicated to the 2023 exhibition "In the World of Magical Realism" at the Copper Museum in Legnica, in Polish language version.

About the painting:
Oil painting presented in 2 exhibitions in Poland:
- Copper Museum in LegnicaMunicipal House of Culture in Luban

Subjective description of the painting:
Jean-Noël Riou in his classic surrealist depiction of nature. A beautiful composition in the heavenly skies in the glow of the piercing sun. Seemingly simple green vegetation, some stones, rocks, some egg-shaped minerals, all this against a background of clouds, but the whole creates a great work characteristic of this French artist. The large size of the painting (140 x 70 cm) is sure to be a great addition to the interiors of a house / apartment that has a suitable place for it.

About the Artist:
As a self-taught artist, he began painting very young, inspired by the great masters such as Renoir, Monet and other Impressionists. During an exhibition in Beaubourg, he discovered the work of Salvador Dalí with fascination. From then on it was a revelation: "the magic of a masterful canvas seen through the eyes of a child." Overwhelmed, he once again grabbed his brushes and did not stop painting.

When creating his works, the artist set himself the goal of making people dream, and his willingness to share his imaginary vision is a means to that end, even a necessity. So he takes us on a journey through unusual landscapes, often littered with books. He also likes to visit "still life" in his own way, turning pebbles into mushrooms or other fantasies.

Jean-Noël Riou admits that he has been inspired by all the possibilities offered by oil painting, through the many layers of lasering and the effects he creates with all sorts of objects and instruments that fall into his hands to satisfy his insatiable taste for beautiful painting, which he says is between imagination and optical illusion. Picture-eater that you are, you will be able to come and satiate yourself, for he does not forget that artists live through the eyes of those who enjoy entering their world and without whom they have nothing to exist....