Silvère Jarrosson graduated from the Paris Opera Ballet School and studied directly with the great painter Willmer Herrison. Influence by his ballet backgrounds, dance becomes one of the main inspirations of his acrylic abstract works.
He has been experimenting movements and effects of the movement with the paint, while his style, unique and recognizable, through the dripping technique he has developed. Akin to action-painting, his work based on the precise knowledge of the physical reactions of the paint, his magnificent pieces have been exhibited and collected not in France but internationally.
Silvère Jarrosson works by series. Each series has an abstract theme, an idea and a particular painting technique that he explores canvas by canvas, giving them both a unity of style and particular singularity.
During this exhibition, several great artworks are chosen from ‘Comas’, ‘Creature’ and ‘No Man’s Land’ these three series. At the same time, some recent work are also exhibited. The dreamlike visions of ‘Comas’ explore the hazy mental state of consciousness that animates us; the state of our minds and also that of our bodies. In tribute to a friend that was struck by illness, his works are an invitation to reflect on internal struggles, our emotions and ourselves. They grow, mingle and blur like nascent ideas. The ‘Comas’, between the suffering over obsession and the fulfilment of dreams.
His ‘Creatures’ are abstract beings that evolve, move, twist and transform within his canvas. They have the freedom of our imagination. These paintings echo with our fascination and our innate fear of the living world. We are confronted with strangeness.
The series ‘No Man’s Land’ descend from the evolution of cold, viscous and mineral materials question our place as living beings in a wider cosmos, where the eternal stands alongside the instantaneous. Life, like the universe, exists only in the present, whilst developing, changing or unchanging, in a space of time close to the eternal. These works give way to contemplative meditation, each of us faced for a moment with the emptiness of astronomical time and the apparent immobility of an ever-changing landscape. The series represents the wandering of a lonely man, lost in his own world; an exploration of the desert.