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Is it nightfall that gives us the feeling of moving from one painting into another? In Fabien Adèle’s paintings, we sometimes find positions of hands that seem Mannerist and faces in profile as if cut off before speaking. A sense of expectation is created. The artist often produces several versions of the same composition, so that he can adapt to what happens on the canvas, letting his intuition take on different tones. With Deux Figures sur un Banc I and II (“Two Figures on a Bench”) the scene can be tinged with twilight in a russet blue that recalls Leonor Fini, or it can take on a pale …