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The work of Chath pierSath is essentially oriented toward painting and drawing. The corpus of paintings I have seen at the exhibition and in his workshop, conveys preoccupations related to a concern of expressing with spontaneous means with no priming, willingly borrowing naive style, near to a childish expression,a strong affective charge. The paintings, often in small size, talk if one can say, for themselves. The main theme is often the portrait or self portrait, or more intimate and daily scenes (as if the painter kept a diary in paintings) marked by a vision unquestionably nostalgic but always stroke in a corner by humour and a certain derision, where the finest poem is mingled closely with a comical effect. The refined colours, rather subdued but with acute light which awaken the painting, play on the tones which convey a great sense of the light and its clearness, or on the opposite a predilection for effect with natural pigmentation. The stroke is freely sinuous and ductile. The whole can be noticed for its powerful capacity to address to the viewer whom cannot stay numb to the affective charge of the paintings, their natural and their strong expressiveness.

Henry-Claude Cousseau, director ENSBA, Paris