…The exhibition title from itself reveals the dimension of Baron-Renouard’s work. Because it is really an imaginary and endless space that the artist invites us to discover, a space vibrating with energy, with motions and colours.
Huge horizons, the craving for freedom, Baron-Renouard had known these on board of his flying fortress, during the forties. After that, the aviator got inspiration from new spirituality he had gotten to know through contacts he had made in North Africa, in the East, in the Far-East.
His work had always been guided by the model incarnated by his Grandfather Paul Renouard, painter and engraver of the beginning of century, by the taste for perfection and by a high curiosity for the world in which he lives.
The works shown at the Benedictine Palace for the spring of the new millenium, are recent and reflect a very small part of this man’s life, tireless, always ready for a flight. These paintings and tapestry-making, where Brittany colours and oriental lights are laid side by side, will be able to convey the strength and the love of life which had been animating him since the beginning.
Gerard Mathias
Chief Executive Officer
Benedictine s.a.