Galerie La Forest Divonne

The La Forest Divonne Gallery has been working closely with Alexandre Hollan since 1994. It has devoted 14 solo exhibitions to him, in Paris and Brussels.

This exhibition celebrates 25 years of artistic collaboration by bringing together recent works of the artist, through his still lifes which he prefers to call "Silent Life", "and trees, which he tirelessly draws and paints in all the variety of interpretation he has variety of interpretation that he has developed in recent years. The "rhythms of lights" will take a special place: these coloured and light dances which express the expressing plant energy, leaving aside the constraints of representation.

Alexandre Hollan's research is the experience of a whole life devoted to the deepening of intuition, at the frontier of the visible. The first great visual impressions of the force that inhabits trees date back to the 1960s. A motif that has been explored ever since, as an object of contact with the world and a point of entry into sensation. This marked the beginning of a nomadic period during which Hollan criss-crossed France in a car converted into a country studio, in search of places and subjects suitable for his art. In 1984, he acquired a vineyard house surrounded by vines and wind-blown trees, in the middle of the arid countryside of the Hérault. From then on, it was always the same trees. He finds them again and again, year after year, in front of the same trees - a dozen or so at the most - and continues his search.

Like Monet in Giverny, Bonnard in Le Canet or Morandi in Bologna and Grizzana, Hollan circumscribes the field of his inspiration to deepen his relationship to the world. In a sense, what he feels the need to say, he carries within him, and these trees are nothing more than triggers, an open door to the universal.

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