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Having reached artistic maturity, the artist has freed himself from the need to “paint pretty faces.” He no longer seeks to please, but to express. His hand, now unbound, becomes the vehicle for a visceral, almost urgent expression. On the surface, a long-contained fervor erupts, spreads, saturates.
The portraits emerge like visions — ghostly figures conjured from the material itself. They are not simply “placed” on the canvas, but torn from it — inhabited by an intense, raw energy, a kind of nervous emotion that seems to want to pierce through the fabric. The subject’s gaze feels both present and distant, as if suspended between two worlds.
About Thierry Vieux
Yet it was in the streets of this cosmopolitan city that he found his true inspiration — graffiti-covered walls, torn posters, surfaces worn by time and weather. From this urban landscape, Thierry Vieux drew a living material that he now transposes onto his canvases.
Over time, the artist freed himself from the need to please. His painting became a release, an inner cry. The faces that emerge from his work are no longer representations, but presences — spectral figures, suspended between emergence and disappearance.
Painted on salvaged posters, his portraits take shape through successive layers of acrylic, applied with knife or brush. The work evolves slowly, through a constant dialogue between gesture and surface. Tears, textures, and imperfections become integral to the narrative, infusing the composition with a rhythm that feels almost musical.
Each painting is a trace, a fragment of raw emotion — to be felt more than simply viewed... somewhere between Giacometti and the Fayum portraits.