Yves Jaquet. Emergence
In the pictorial field, creation is the reflection of a personality, a lived experience, a sensitivity under controlled or not controlled environmental influence… Coming from a rural background and a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Yves Jaquet draws his inspiration from nature to nourish his artistic expression. Very quickly, he directed his research towards the vegetable and mineral world and developed his own mixed techniques, mainly based on cardboard, paper and natural pigments. Organic matter, the soil of its inspiration, returns to its own expression, to its progressive states, leaving behind its own memories, its sharp winters, its splendid spring, its radiant autumn. It reveals emotions, the crossings of ages, unlikely stories, imaginary memories… Structured by natural rhythms, bristled or caressed by lichens that take the form of the real, deeply inked by our original universe, his works have their own life. It is not useless to think that this true-false matter is composed of pulp, itself from the tree. Thus, the loop closes: his paintings-sculptures are the witnesses of the perpetual movement of matter. Yves Jaquet’s works, fascinating mimicries, tell us about our roots, life, rebirth and the future, offering us infinite horizons that we can already distinguish…