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Charles Coturel draws flowers and plants of exuberant beauty, sometimes unloved like these invasive plants from elsewhere, objects of eradication campaigns. At the same time, it lists strange colorful plants imagined by man for the cinema industry or theme park tourism, artificial plants which make up a new Eden. The liveliness of the colors or the pictorialist aspect of the grain of the drawings add to the ambivalence of a subject which questions our relationship to nature and the landscape. This same feeling is revealed in his charcoal drawings of bonsai, or more recently his paintings on …