VIEUX BREHEC

Sรฉrie – Extrait de l’exposition Framework ร  la galerie Pictura, Cesson-Sรฉvignรฉ, 2025

Vieux Brehec A
Acrylique et aรฉrosol sur toile mixte enchรขssรฉe ,tablette en chรชne , brique creuse, parpaing, pinceau, acier, toile lin Format 3P, Caisse amรฉricaine en chรชne Format 92*73 cm.

Aoรปt 2025, Cรดtes-dโ€™Armor En vacances, comme ร  mon habitude, je pars ร  la recherche de lieux abandonnรฉs pour y puiser lโ€™inspiration et y dรฉposer quelques peintures. Cโ€™est prรจs de Plouha que je dรฉcouvre, enfouis sous une vรฉgรฉtation reconquise, les vestiges de lโ€™ancienne colonie de vacances du Vieux-Brรฉhec, surnommรฉe Les Pโ€™tits Gรขs. Fondรฉe en 1925 par la colonie Lโ€™En Avant Guingamp, elle a fermรฉ ses portes en 1998, ร  la suite de lโ€™affaire de lโ€™abbรฉ Cottard.

Jโ€™y passe une matinรฉe, seul, avec un matรฉriel minimaliste : quatre bouteilles de peinture primaire et une bombe dโ€™aรฉrosol. Dans lโ€™un des bรขtiments, une piรจce en grande partie vandalisรฉe rรฉvรจle un mur en parpaing de bรฉton, dissimulรฉ derriรจre un mur de briques rouges en terre cuite, aujourdโ€™hui dรฉtruit et effondrรฉ ร  ses pieds. Le gris des parpaings et le rouge terre cuite des briques deviennent la base chromatique de cette future peinture. Sur place, je rรฉcupรจre quelques รฉlรฉments qui mโ€™inspirent, ainsi quโ€™une planche qui me servira de palette.

De retour en atelier, cette base guide la crรฉation de la sรฉrie. Le hasard fait bien les choses : les toiles que jโ€™avais prรฉparรฉes avec des fonds de rรฉcupรฉration sโ€™accordent parfaitement avec ces deux teintes. Le reste sโ€™รฉlabore au fil de la crรฉation, comme une rรฉponse intuitive ร  ce lieu chargรฉ dโ€™histoire.

Vieux Brehec b
Acrylique et aรฉrosol sur toile mixte enchรขssรฉe, caisse amรฉricaine en chรชne Format 130*97 cm.

Vieux Brehec C, Acrylique et Aรฉrosols
27*41cm.

August 2025, Cรดtes-d’Armor On vacation, as usual, I set out in search of abandoned places to draw inspiration and leave a few paintings. Near Plouha, I discovered the remains of the old Vieux-Brรฉhec holiday camp, nicknamed Les Pโ€™tits Gรขs, buried under overgrown vegetation. Founded in 1925 by the Lโ€™En Avant Guingamp colony, it closed its doors in 1998 following the Abbรฉ Cottard affair.

I spent a morning there, alone, with minimal equipment: four bottles of primer and a spray can. In one of the buildings, a largely vandalized room revealed a concrete cinder block wall, hidden behind a red terracotta brick wall, now destroyed and collapsed at its feet. The gray of the cinder blocks and the terracotta red of the bricks became the chromatic basis for this future painting. On site, I collected a few elements that inspired me, as well as a board that I would use as a palette.

Back in my studio, this base guides the creation of the series. As luck would have it, the canvases I had prepared with recycled backgrounds match these two colors perfectly. The rest is developed as I create, like an intuitive response to this place steeped in history.

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Impregnated by the practice of graffiti, which he began in 1990 in Rennes, Brez develops a painting that seems to use codes from cubism, constructivism or futurism. However, his graphic language is more certainly the heritage of the research of a letter style, a quest intimately related to the world of graffiti writing. Between abstraction and figuration, his In Situ paintings are inspired by the panorama while playing with the surface of the chosen places. The workshop work feeds on the forms inherited from graffiti and adapts to the limited frame of the canvas. He feeds again the painting in the public space in a permanent coming and going.