“My landscapes are rather inner landscapes where I prefer more the emotion felt, the furtive image over reality. However, I have never completely cut myself off from this evidence.

It is she who triggers the process of creation to the return of these long walks that allows me, this Nature that I love deeply.

It is a mixture of reality and memories, emotions, colors. Images stored over time that give these landscapes the intensity of this life that we are destroying without the possibility of return. ”

Professional since 2005, several awards punce his work, he has exhibited in many places around the world.

Present in collections, in France, Spain, Germany, Japan, Denmark, etc…

Dominique Gentreau, settles in the duration, contemplation, a certain form of serenity.

And by confronting the landscape, nature, trees, flowers, he remembers the works of great predecessors of the hinge between the 19th and 20th centuries, sensitive to the lights of the south, Provence, the changing reflections of the sun, the drought and the shimmering greenery.

We immediately salute the mastery of the medium, with a knife, a brush, scratching, or scratching, as well as the way of treating the subject, of evoking vegetation. The touches of paint resurrect the burnt earth, the wheelbases awaken the reliefs, the dry rocks, the trees come to life in their autumnal pride or their filiform lance, their stripping of southern conifers.

We know that the human is a recurring and essential theme for this neo-expressionist artist settled in the Landes. However, man barely appears here. In his landscapes, Dominique sometimes places subdivisions imbued with modesty, simple small buildings with bright whiteness, in an environment with the appearance of stripped abstraction (and here or there it would not be inappropriate to think of Nicolas de Staël for these applications of paintings depicting horizons or sober expanses). But nothing significant attests to the presence of man.

His talent in contemporary expressionism is truly amplified when it comes to accounting for nature, an emotion born of a landscape as simple as it is.

It is all the sensitivity of Dominique Gentreau that manifests itself once again, in very endearing works, far from his fascinating portraits, although tormented and dark, because they are still a reflection of our weaknesses, our weaknesses.

JHMaisonneuve -Writer

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