Gerard Lucian Ricard

"Black is my favorite color and white is my favorite color" said Andy Warhol ... Each painter carries with him in his palette, his own light. She is not only her particular way of enlightening her figures or preferring accused contrasts or milder passages, she must be the essentials of her painting, the very style. One day the color no longer becomes necessary and black and white are essential. The duality between the two, forms a point of harmony: the chiaroscuro. There is something humble, grandiose and painful in this shadow and light. The chiaroscuro then becomes an inner color in which the material is created. The work of Gérard Ricard, through his paintings, drawings and inks, is what we perceive with the eyes, but the gaze has its limits. The works are born and disappear, and only their - memory (s) - remain like a dream ...