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Franck Chalendard painter

If to paint is to work in simplicity, to return forever to archaic forms, raw colours and raw materials, then Franck Chalendard is a painter. And a great one at that. His pictures – since this is the word that has for long been reserved for these supports packed with pigments – betray the sovereignty of a work that consists at times of juxtaposing coloured panels of wood and medium (Ichromes), as does a stained-glass or mosaic artist in Chartres or Ravenna, and at times of creating skeins of paint (Madras) where orthonormal and interlacing …