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VAN QUE

Lives and works in Les Pennes Mirabeau, France

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE http://vanque.free.fr

vAN qUE – A BORN-PAINTER: No system! Simply, he speaks
of love. Marked by a prodigious eclecticism, both enthusiastic
and modest, as if he felt some limits to his knowledge,
whereas precisely his culture, his skill ans his spontaneity as
a born-painter allow him to know no limitations, save those
imposed by his beloved independance, which he protects,
knowing himself as well as he knows how to probe the world
in which he moves about. An altruist and a loner at the same
time. [1] vAN qUE’s thorough knowledge (acquired at the
school of Fine Arts in Hanoi, then that of Toulouse, has freed
him from the strict rules of elaboration, so much so that
his creation strikes us as exceptionally spontaneous. Upon
discovering his work, the first emotion felt is of a poetical
nature: the plastic beauty of his composition, the graphic
laws, the fermal laws of construction only appear later as
a result of voluntary scruting. His skill satisfies whimsical
sensations and the pictorial vocabulary adapts itself to the
general stylistic effects. vAN qUE appears as an extremely
sentitive and receptive being ready to capture poetry
whenever a poet only can grasp it. [2] when one visits vAN
qUE’s exhibition, one is on an equal footing with the reality
of painting and one is given a lesson in simplicity. That’s
what painting is all about: no tricks, no clunsiness. what can
be found is the abvious translation of a painted space on a
human scale. vAN qUE’s power to thus render reality is due
to the patient skillfulness of his art and his vision organized
along the lines of his craft. [3] No system, however, will
give us the key to his work.vAN qUE is the exact opposite
of a painter with recipes: he even seems to avoid whatever
could be taken for a repetition... one would look in vain for
a mannerism or a mania. His works, just as beloved women
and landscapes, do not belong to that category that fades
away after a few glances: they are an invitation to diagogue,
second looks, progression, endearment, a passage from
strangeness to appeal, from appeal to familarity. Simply, they
speak of love. [4]
[1] Raymond MALLET- Le courrier d’Aix 1983. [2] Aline DINIER – Aline
DINIER La dépêche du Midi 1973. [3] x. (Professor of Fine Art School
LUMINI, Marseille) La Marseillaise 1974. [4] Fernand FARIOLI – Le
Provençal d’Aix 1994.

 La Detresse I, 1978 OIL ON CANvAS 31x21 IN. / 81x54 CM.
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