artist/ Marc Tanguy
France
Marc Tanguy is a French painter born in Paris in 1959. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, where he was a pupil of Zao Wou Ki. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. The artist considers himself above all a painter of landscapes, which show his fascination for the living and his wonder at Nature. He loves art history and the painters who made it, including the Venetians of the Italian Renaissance, the Fauves and the German Expressionists.
It was his visit to a Pierre Bonnard exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in the 80s that he describes as a shock, and which was to determine his way of painting.
His vibrant brushstrokes, endowed with an expressive lyricism, are reflected in his landscapes that catch the light. Marc Tanguy is a painter who delights in linking contemporary art and tradition, through a discipline that feeds on art history, natural vision, abstraction and invention.
