FOCUS ON FRANCOIS BONNEL

Overview

Between rigor and spontaneity, François Bonnel transforms geometry into a living language of color, rhythm, and silence.

François Bonnel’s practice unfolds at the intersection of discipline and intuition.

His paintings are not simply exercises in form; they are propositions about perception, about the way geometry can be both a structure and a destabilizing force.

From the chromatic intensity of Les Intersections to the radical condensation of his monumental canvases, Bonnel’s work traces an arc of reduction and expansion.

Color, once exuberant and assertive, gradually yields to raw canvas and muted tones, only to resurface in measured fragments.

Geometry, once rigid, softens into organic silhouettes, opening his abstraction to a slower, more meditative temporality.

This focus exhibition proposes to read Bonnel’s oeuvre as a continuum rather than a sequence: an ongoing discussion between order and rupture, silence and vibration, surface and depth.

Each work is less an isolated statement than a fragment of an evolving language. A language through which Bonnel redefines the possibilities of geometric abstraction today.