We wanted to bring together a number of our contemporary artists around the colours blue, yellow and red and to observe how their works respond to each other.

Some, like Charles Bézie, who is rather a fan of black and white, returned to these primary colors at the end of his career, having started a series entitled "The Primaries" in the 80s. The Primaries were done on a white background, whereas the Ortholudes, which date from 2015, are on a black background and the rule of numbers that orders these colors is different.

Ode Bertrand, who struggles with color, nevertheless tackled the task, and the result is vibrant. Her graphic work and the geometric black lines on a white background, for which she is better known, do not detract from her perfectly mastered use of color. Here, she has achieved her goal: to create something spiritual and evanescent, a trace of something gone, a fleeting memory.

Nicholas Bodde was honored with an exhibition at the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn, Germany, which opened in May and was titled "From Color to Infinity." As the title suggests, he filled the museum with his vibrant palette, much to the delight of visitors. His ovals, circles, horizontals, and verticals of colored bands, as well as his totems, enlivened the walls and spaces of the venue.
The small sculptures from Jean-Gabriel Coignet's Ana series punctuated the exhibition. They are a divine, burgundy red, and lustrous, their perfect proportions lending them a sculptural quality.

Jean-François Dubreuil will be present with a diptych from 2010 in which yellow makes a striking appearance. The color, chosen at random for the analysis of this 'Quotidien d'Oran', makes this newspaper a reflection of the sun's brilliance in the Algerian city.

We will return to a very minimalist work by Jean-Michel Gasquet (1929-2023) created in the 2010s, using primary colors on a white background. It is worth noting that one of his works is part of the current exhibition 'Homage to France' at the Ritter Museum in Waldenbuch, Germany, a selection of works made by the museum's collector and founder.

Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz's latest works reveal an inner light, like a door opening and letting out a powerful beam. He mounts his canvases by cutting his own frames, giving them a striking architectural quality.

Antoine Perrot, master of ready-made color, color imported from industrially produced materials, invites us to discover his latest works made with woven ribbons, which give them an almost impressionistic spirit that we have juxtaposed with constructed works from the 90s made with colored sponges

Yves Popet shares with us his magic squares, skillfully executed in pastel, in a range of blue and red.

A work by Henri Prosi (1936-2010) from the 1970s-80s, where broken lines intertwine, created from cut canvases glued onto a free canvas, captivates us with its vitality. We linger to understand what dances before our eyes.

But what would have become of yellow without the intervention of André Stempfel, who made it his favorite color, which is expressed in abstruse or derisory movements.

Moon-Pil Shim's work is very gentle; behind its successive layers of plexiglass and canvases coated with fluorescent, white or red colors, the effects of depth through superimposition are mysterious.

So let's get ready for a colorful start to the new school year!