Exhibitions

Living close to the river was a dream come true: Didier Boussarie now has a studio in the Loiret. That is how the water spirit began to visit him. In the beginning, it whispered landscapes of the Loire, this seemingly calm water, and the activity that unfolds on its banks. First, the blue day, the green evening, the black night and recently variations in yellow and red. More than ever colour plays out and the compositions – just like water – spread on the entire surface… Soon, plants – irises and cow parsnips – invade the banks and one of them draws shadows on a face… a woman’s face among the trees alongside the river.And the nymph settles. She wanders around, tries a few dance steps, takes her clothes off, swims as the landscape changes its colour. She wears flower dresses, and this motif becomes background and wallpaper, when she appears in polka dot knickers, barelegged, only wearing a fur-hooded jacket – her back turned to the painter. In a second portrait, she is standing, facing him, wearing rubber boots to brave the humidity of the blue landscape, which is in fact a canvas in the studio. An image within an image. From a real landscape to scenography. Didier Boussarie opens a door on a theatric nature for an inner vision, the fantasy to unravel It is on this very doorstep – where several worlds intersect and interweave – that If the river beneath your eyelids is has its source.