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With the confirmation of authenticity by Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.

Provenance:
- Praz-Delavallade, Paris (verso with the label).
- Purchased from the above in 2008, private collection Switzerland.
- By descent to the present owner, also private collection Switzerland.

Exhibition: Vienna 2008, Shut and open at the same time. Secession, 29 February -13 April.

The painter Philippe Decrauzat was born in Lausanne in 1974. He graduated from the École cantonale d'art in 1999 with a diplôme supérieur and took up a professorship there one year later. Today he lives between Lausanne and Paris. On the one hand, Decrauzat's oeuvre is characterised by his confident use of a wide variety of techniques, so that his work includes murals, paintings, sculptures, installations and videos, which he combines in numerous exhibitions. On the other hand, he works with a very limited colour palette with surfaces that vibrate through the use of optical effects.

Philippe Decrauzat belongs to a generation of artists who are committed to a new conceptual concretism and address central questions about perception. The artistic examination of Russian Constructivism of the first half of the 20th century, but also of Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s are an integral part of his works. In 2002 he won the Lausanne Prix Manor, followed by the Swiss Art Award 2005.

In the present painting from 2008, Decrauzat plays with form and makes use of a shaped canvas, as is familiar, for example, from the work of Robert Mangold. The artist's skilful use of painted lines which become thinner and thinner towards the inner corners, drawing the viewer's eye to the black core of the painting, in combination with the unusually shaped canvas, gives the work a sense of almost being in motion.