Quentin Germain

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Quentin Germain is an artist whose work is nourished by his own travels (Brazil, Lebanon, China, former Yugoslavia) and his fascination with archaeology. A great reader of the German Romantics, his canvases convey the notion of the sublime, also dear to some of his contemporaries such as Anselm Kiefer. He also draws inspiration from scientific imagery and cinematic atmospheres.

Quentin Germain is an artist haunted by man's relationship with his environment. An observer of the invisible, he is interested in what we see without looking, what passes unnoticed. At the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he began working on "Non-places": freeways, parking lots, zones, anonymous and ignored landscapes. Since 2017, he has been depicting an unreal world with familiar overtones, somewhere between genesis and ruin. The resulting paintings present nocturnal visions in which man is totally absent, but nonetheless perceptible through the traces he has left behind.

Recently, Quentin Germain began a series based on underwater landscapes. His canvases, in which man is definitively, almost hopelessly absent - except for a few clues such as an abandoned chair - captivate and draw the viewer into a deep, dark world, illuminated by the artist's gaze.