Eugène Leroy's Nudes at Michael Werner

The raison d'être of his works is the depiction of human beings, the depiction of their visual and imaginative existence. Leroy said 'he wanted to paint a **** that transcended the limits of the canvas'. For him, a successful painting of a **** is a **** you want to touch; when observing one of his paintings, we go through a physical and visual experience.

The painter relied on others in order to come closer to himself, closer to his painting.
His relationship with the other is one of sensuality, vision and thoughts, it is the crystallization of all these elements that makes his painting interesting.

The origin of the picture was a gesture, a subject, two terms Leroy would say were synonymous for him. His fascination with the visible is tightly interwoven with a kind of sexual fascination. The conception of a painting as well as the whole process of giving form to the painting, is almost a kind of structured sexual ****. With his paintings, he incarnated his relationship with the other. The other, in most of the paintings presented at Michael Werner is Marina.