… « I see in his painting a deliberate attempt to consider painting as a skin, as an envelope, as a veil; I mean all that which, in the history of art, has stood for the metaphor of painting: the cloud, the undecidable things so present in Chinese or Japanese paintings , the blurred, floating matters. All this suggests vacuum, which means that, basically, even before the recent emergence of our digital age, I believe that he had been working in what the Japanese call the Ma ». Extract from the 2002 film « Gérard Pairé ou La Peinture en Absence » with Christine Buci-Glucksmann.
