Laurent Reypens: In Slow Motion

Laurent Reypens explores the infinite formal combinations of a single object - the white Royal Boch bowl - which he repeatedly features on his canvas, making it the preferred image in his representations. In his paintings the bowl ceases to be an ordinary tabletop recipient and becomes a concave semisphere with a subtle circular base; a pure and sensual shape that is able to absorb and restore light, acquire volume with shadows and re-emerge within the space of the painting through new combinations. For him, the bowl is the basic constitutive unit of a whole, through which he can describe light and colour, reflect on the meaning of painting and explore certain experiences of modern art.
- The recurrence of the subject, which Reypens has relentlessly depicted for over thirty years, is testimony to the universality assumed by its simple shape.