François-Olivier NOLORGUES

François-Olivier Nolorgues was born in 1969 in Paris. He lives and works in Deauville.

A self-taught painter, his work is part of an almost holistic approach in which he restores on canvas the intimate energy of the people he meets. Attitudes, movements, sensations, personalities, etc. He agrees that he tries to correspond as closely as possible to the sincere reality of the moment and the person painted. In the manner of surrealist automatic drawing, the artist constructs his work as he paints.

In his portraits, the pictorial representation of vital energy is brought to its peak, as if he wished to freeze the eternal movement, in a raw and spontaneous burst, where reflection and distance do not exist.
We can then describe his works as a quest, a unique perception of otherness, which takes the attentive viewer towards the intimate mirror of himself, where no one else can ever go.
Driven by “pure psychic automatism,” François-Olivier Nolorgues' works listen to the future and transcribe it to the present, as if the truth were somewhere possible to materialize.

“Beyond words and ideas, there is the energy that we release and the expressions that characterize us; they are our essence and our true identity, a territory where no one has ever been able to cheat.”