artist/ Fournié

France

Yannick Fournié

Ambiguity is surely the word that best characterizes Yannick Fournié as much as his painting. Between power and sensitivity, anima and animus, social identity, and deep self.

After a life path as atypical as rich and strong (including a career as a paratrooper in the French army), far from the field and artistic sensitivity, it is only in 2010, at 38 years old, that Yannick seized a canvas and brushes. Like a culmination, a personal maturation leading him to a compelling desire to use this artistic and sensitive medium, to express the intensity that bubbles in him and … his quest for meaning.
His subject? The identity and all its duality between what we are inside and the codes of our society which we dress outside. Yannick plays with this ambiguity, sharpening it to sublimate it and, in the end, touch us. Each of Yannick’s paintings, without exception, whatever the theme of the series he develops, contrasts the human characteristics of contemporary identity.
Through what is the painted subject or through what we perceive and/or what the work awakens in us, his works shake us up.

Technically, and aesthetically, Yannick alternates between acrylic and oil as long as it allows him to throw ideas and emotions, a work always carried out in the impulse, determined, compulsive.
The varnish with which he finishes his works enhances their brilliance even more.

The precision and accuracy of execution are impressive, and his technique, very close to realism, offers a vibrant pictorial flesh. As for his color palette, it is contemporary, vivid, but always perfectly balanced. Even when the subject is in semi-darkness, in this chiaroscuro that he also handles perfectly, his works light up the room in which they are located. 

“I belong to a rich and dense generation where everything jostles with everything else: Pop Art, Comics, Street Art, the brilliance of the Internet and social networking, of reality television, contemporary audiovisual trash. I am
the euphoric, baffled witness to a social, economic and ecological disintegration that I sometimes find beautiful.” Yannick Fournié.