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"Sylvain Latendresse has put aside any anxiety about following “outdated” models. In fact, by engaging methods of painting derived and presented over a century ago as a contemporary experience of art – and the human experience the art reflects and celebrates – Latendresse moves past the issue of anachronism and towards the matter of revivalism. He returns specifically to the coloristic and structural experiments of late 19th-century post- Impressionism – French pointillism and fauvism and German expressionism most notably – is in itself a gesture of defiance, asserting the primacy of art history over the fleeting tastes of any contemporary audience."
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Opening: “California Nature, Unseen” by Sylvain Latendresse
"Based on places in central California that the artists knows and loves, the landscapes comprising “California Nature, Unseen” are dreamlike and sometimes surreal. These enchanted vistas continue the tradition of California landscape painting in a bold, contemporary way. They are realized with rich and often Fauvist colors – including a masterful use of yellow and purple hues – and scintillating dappled textures. Latendresse paints only with palette knives, and the rich swaths of acrylic paint put forth a tactile quality suggesting you are physically entering into the spaces he has imagined."
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METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE - May 2023
