Where I near, where I land (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Nicolas Poignon, the multi-award-winning draughtsman and painter, is a wanderer between worlds, between paper and canvas, charcoal, silverpoint and oil paint, drawing and linocut, landscape, cityscape and still life, between France and Germany.
The landscapes that Nicolas Poignon is showing in Bernau are both exterior and interior pictures. They capture, they evoke the beauty of nature. And at the same time, they focus on our longing for an immediate, unadulterated existence. The numinous veil that, as it were, enraptures us from the depicted landscape sections, or the masterfully drawn half-light in which they sometimes appear immersed, are not only cleverly used aesthetic means that signal to us what we are in danger of losing. They point the way to ourselves. That is great art.
Jürgen Glocker
Nicolas Poignon, the multi-award-winning draughtsman and painter, is a wanderer between worlds, between paper and canvas, charcoal, silverpoint and oil paint, drawing and linocut, landscape, cityscape and still life, between France and Germany.
The landscapes that Nicolas Poignon is showing in Bernau are both exterior and interior pictures. They capture, they evoke the beauty of nature. And at the same time, they focus on our longing for an immediate, unadulterated existence. The numinous veil that, as it were, enraptures us from the depicted landscape sections, or the masterfully drawn half-light in which they sometimes appear immersed, are not only cleverly used aesthetic means that signal to us what we are in danger of losing. They point the way to ourselves. That is great art.
Jürgen Glocker
Nicolas Poignn wurde 1963 in Nancy geboren, studierte von 1982 - 1984 E.S.A.G. in Paris und von 1984 - 1989 E.N.S.A.V. de La Cambre in Brüssel. Er ist Mitgllied der Société des Peintres-Graveurs. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
