François Rouan
Porte Apia
The series of 19 Portes de Rome, exhibited by TEMPLON in 1993, is an exemplary example of Rouan‘s approach between 1971 and 1977. 12 Doors had been exhibited at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1975, about which Dominique Bozo wrote: “these doors are like provisional limits, opening and closing the field of experience of the painter, who considers them as thresholds of reflection, passages that must be used to escape the ‘confinement’ of painting and penetrate the open field of its possibilities”.
Porta Appia
Last news
French artist François Rouan, known for his braided canvases, presents for his latest exhibition at Galerie Templon is latest “photographic-tableaux”, a group of forty previously unseen pieces created since 2020.
At the age of 80, painter François Rouan is returning to Galerie Templon almost two decades after his last show with a brand new exhibition of recent work.
The artist
Born in 1943 in Montpellier, François Rouan lives and works in Laversine (France). From the beginning of his career in the 1960s, he was associated with the Supports/Surfaces movement without being officially affiliated with it. François Rouan has followed a singular path, deconstructing the traditional structure of the painting to open up new avenues in the field of contemporary painting. Following his research into collages, he produced his first braids in 1965 and from 1980 onwards extended his practice to other mediums, photographic and filmic.
