Going against the tide of contemporary art movements through pictorial non-conformism, as well as through a singular approach...the work of Claude Lessard challenges the art of its tendencies by transgressing its principles.

Devoid of intention, his pictorial universe is part of a constant search for energy between the organic and cosmic world.

A form of anti-art, visionary and "outsider", his spontaneous work resides at the borders of reality and imagination, guided by an animist sense. He overturns our established artistic notions and encourages us, through his works, to explore our own consciousness.

In search of the absolute, he dialogues with thinking matter, through intuitive gestures where his only direction is the emotional charge of the vibrational moment.

Under the guise of abstraction, the primary energy driven by the artist is revealed, invoking on each canvas a matrix incarnated under the specter of the liminal space of unconsciousness.

Different hybrid beings are born there and come out of nothingness freely, emanating from absolute spontaneity, without intention or restriction. The intricacy of the gesture makes us feel numerous presences which can sometimes recall a mythology of chiaroscuro and exorcism.

His pictorial language emerges from the vibrant tension between the subject and the object, as well as a work of construction/deconstruction, by adding and removing layers of paint, applied with fingers or improvised spatulas and sustained in a charged gestural movement of instantaneous and instinctive emotions.

He favors recycled and natural materials, acrylic, oil or aerosol paint, as well as minerals, crystals and copper. All matter contains a memory, marked by an experience and the artist thus attempts to bring out this energy trapped in the past and bring it back to life, thus transformed!

With an “alla prima” technique, a form of human DNA is sometimes incorporated which crystallizes at the heart of the canvas and sublimates into itself, as if it were recycling a soul… thus bordering on the mystical!

Jocelyne Bellemare

Art History Bachelor