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, Ex-Yugoslavia) and his fascination with archeology. A great reader of the German Romantics, his paintings convey the notion of the sublime, also cherished by 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 the relationship between man and his environment. As an observer of the invisible, he is interested in what we see without looking, what goes unnoticed. At the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he began working on "Non-places": highways, parking lots, zones, anonymous and ignored landscapes. Since 2017, he has been depicting an unreal world with familiar accents, between genesis and ruin. The resulting paintings present nocturnal visions where man is totally absent, but nevertheless perceptible by the traces he has left behind.

Recently, Quentin Germain began a series around underwater landscapes. His paintings, where man is definitively, almost desperately absent – if not for a few clues such as an abandoned chair – captivate and draw the viewer into a dark and deep world, illuminated by the artist's gaze.