Atelier Denis Guitton

A sense of purity, a quest for the essential, rigour and coherence are the key words to define Denis Guitton's work.

A MAN

From the Beaux-Arts in Bayonne to Kurt Onhsorg's workshop in Vienna, this ceramist by training travels throughout Europe and the Middle East, working with materials and confronting apprenticeships in order to perfect his technique and immerse himself in different cultures. Settled in Burgundy since 1991, painting became his mode of expression. He takes distance, withdraws from the world to put down his work and develop a very personal expression.

A PLACE

The studio is monastic, emptied of all superfluous things, and in no way corresponds to the romantic clutter with which artists' studios are generally associated. The room seems to have been designed to maintain, at their highest levels, reflection, concentration and the slow work of a craftsman. Everything is ordered, lined up, tidied up in this white space organised so as not to impose anything on the artist except to offer him calm and silence.

The door is always open; it is his way of meeting the public of collectors that is his.

A WORK

Each stage of his rigorous approach is a discovery, part of the continuity and imagines other areas of research. His creation shapes an original and constantly renewed style that first of all appeals to our senses before stimulating our thoughts.

He focuses on the breath of the universe, the articulation of architecture in space and illuminates, for us, a vision of harmony. By exploring the hidden depths of the material, by exposing it to rewrite or even reinvent it, the artist offers the visitor the opportunity to enter a secret universe and to fill it with his own emotion.

The viewer's gaze goes beyond the visible because, behind the order of the composition, there is a communion of the elsewhere. A meditative climate, encompassing sensation and emotion, generates a poetics of the inaccessible.