Romain Froquet - Gesture

He draws inspiration from contemporary artists who were pioneers of abstract painting, such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Abstract art gives him the power to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite from the finite, and to explore uncharted territories.

In an ultra-connected world, the artist hopes that his creations will reflect these connections: those between people, between natural elements, between humankind and the Earth… and, of course, between the artist and his audience. By working from photographs of motorway junctions, for example, he evokes the transport links that connect people. The line enables him to give tangible form to this connection.

Designed as a gradual immersion into the artist’s world, the book explores a practice in which the line becomes at once form, language and sensory experience.

It traces more than twenty years of artistic research centred on the line, the gesture and the notion of connection, through a rich and cross-disciplinary journey combining drawing, painting, installations and site-specific works, both in France and internationally.