"Indian Summer" by Marcel Demagny

"Indian summer" by Marcel Demagny. A current atmosphere, a touch of Nicolas de Staël. Oil on canvas with a knife. Single work 46 X 38 cm. Framed (frame to be reviewed...) Marcel Demagny was born on October 2, 1949 in Crehange in Moselle. He came to painting and drawing from a very young age. His passion was strengthened and confirmed after entering the School of Architecture in Nancy, integrated into the School of Fine Arts, by meeting and confronting painters and visual artists. Graduated in 1974, he then worked as chief architect of the urban community of Greater Nancy, until October 2005. He signed numerous architectural projects, without stopping painting. His exhibitions from 1969 were very successful, he has exhibited since 1990 in many galleries in France and abroad. Since October 2005, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting, he left Lorraine to live in the south of Drôme. He masters perspectives, refines forms, transfigures landscapes into compositions on the edge of abstraction. Inspired by painters of color and matter: Nicolas de Staël, Cathelin, Venard, Ambrogiani, Hilaire..., as much by those who use violent contrasts, as those, calmer, who use subtle nuances. More than forty years of passion and practice characterize his style, he works with a knife in flat areas. He creates canvases with his writing and does not wish to be confined by particular subjects. "Painting must leave a part of the dream to the observer, the canvas will live several times. Ephemeral on the strokes of spatulas covered with colored material, it will live again with each look, with each caress" to paint is to exist, it is to leave the trace of an energy deployed. The material worked vigorously, vibrates under the light, and this brings a new dimension to the subject treated. ©marcel demagny extract from the painter's personal site.