In a constant search for innovative creativity, the Aoun and Vestri Gallery is delighted to present the paintings on carpet of the duo of artists 4H2B, composed of François Alexandre, anthropologist and painter, and David Galimant, sociologist and designer.

Close to naive art, these two protagonists play with multiple pictorial techniques. «4 hands 2 brains» work hand in hand, like two alter ego, giving birth to a figuration approaching singular art, advocating a spontaneity of execution.

Also known as «post art brut», singular art has its roots in the concept of « art brut » created by Jean Dubuffet since 1945. It is a «pure, raw artistic operation, reinvented in the whole of its phases by its author, from only its own impulses». This definition corresponds well to the empirical and heterogeneous work of this promising duo which is characterized by a freshness in their vision and by the use of new mediums and materials.

With the intuitive gesture and nature of the support as guides, their prototypes deal with a share of random and unexpected. These visual propositions are gradually emerging. The important contrast between the flat surfaces of bright colours, surrounded by black, and the precious patterns of weaving, open to a mutual enhancement of these opposing but complementary aesthetics.

Far from the concept of ecological recovery, a sociological and anthropological vision is at the heart of these creations. From then on, the carpet, omnipresent in our interiors since the dawn of time, is part of the history of Humanity. Often old fashioned, the artists inscribe it in the contemporary era by resacralising it by painting and hanging on the wall, in order to give it back its dignity of object. Full of history, carpets are also the vector of the identity of the owner, in a concept of filiation and genealogy through the heritage of these objects from generation to generation. The holder of the carpet, who may be the client, then appears as an integral part of the work and even its starting point.