EXHIBITION LOIRE MONDE
Before returning to Anjou, his homeland, Thuleau lived in Paris, New York, and Japan. He became widely known in the Caribbean, where he still exhibits his luminous canvases today.
There is no rift between his Caribbean period and the new paintings in this exhibition inspired by the Loire. To paraphrase Matisse, there is simply “more of the absolute, more abstraction, to achieve a form distilled down to the essential.”
A lusciousness of colors, a warm light, and simplicity remain his preferred tools for sharing this pleasant vibration that enriches our daily lives. This is the precise role that Thuleau assigns to the creative artist.
Through its horizontal and calm landscape, the Loire invites us to meditate. It thus releases our “thought-world” (pensée-monde), to borrow Édouard Glissant’s expression, nurtured by all cultural mixings and everything carried along by this river.
It is a painting that speaks as much to our body as to our mind. The simple pleasure of color acts upon us through positive vibrations, in a world that has become so difficult to love.