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Charly Lesquelin

ARTISTIC APPROACH

The imagination of Charly Lesquelin fed on the intense beauty of Reunion, this volcano emerged from the Indian Ocean.

As a child, he has often paced the mountain trails of his native island. Caves, islets and rocks are so many witnesses to a tormented history: slaves "chestnuts" haunt the spirit of the artist to the point of inspiring his work.

It is first by the representation of these landscapes with a great effusion of colors that the artist tries to exorcise the demons of the past. The painting becomes an inner quest.

Throughout his works, Charly Lesquelin soothes his anger, the ghosts of slavery dissipate.

The opening to other cultures, including Buddhism with the meeting of a monk in 2007, will bring him this peace of mind: "Painting the mountains of Reunion can then become a quest for the sacred." 

From then on, the calligraphy, the blacks of the ink of China and the shades of gray are invited in his landscapes more and more present in his work.