Contemporary Art

Pierre-Yves Trémois (8 January 1921 – 16 August 2020)
The prominent feature of the work of Trémois, member of the French Institute (Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris), is the strength of his line.

Trémois'work is distinguished by the clean decisive line, and the contrast between the rigour of graphic art and the freedom of imagination.The line is a challenge between violence and sensuality; his original art-form overrides the technique, to the point at which technique is forgotten.Paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, ceramics, jewellery.

A combat between the line and volume.
His engravings, which show him to be one of the greatest of our time, are in contrast with his sculptures, through which he is able to express his recurrent themes in three-dimensional form : bodies and embracing couples are often dominated by violence ; scientific mythology in which Trémois does not illustrate science but questions it, and bestiaries in which merge animals and calligraphy, a fusion between Man and animal. ...

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