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Alain Rouschmeyer

Art is not an end in itself. It is a motor of life, a catalyst for emotions and a wonderful means of expression. Alain Rouschmeyer's message is clear. These paintings are episodes of life, gourmand approaches to everyday life that he manages to savor by sketching with delight. The artist captures the story of his life through the prism of his encounters, travels and emotions. He fixes his moods on the canvas like a visual diary. The painting captures a real or fantasized moment, like a formidable trick on death, a trick on oblivion. Alain Rouschmeyer is carried away by his sharp gaze and navigates the flow of his memories. The mechanics of memory is linked to places to permanently inscribe a lived moment. The artist composes in a similar way. He treats space with the same force as the human. More than a mere decoration, it is an emotional landscape. We experience the place at the same time as the characters represented. The experience is not only visual, we feel the atmosphere, we perceive the perfumes and the murmurs that seem to escape from the work. The flow of time stops and we are spectators of a passage, of a moment that escapes us and that the artist manages to capture on his canvas. Genre scenes, life scenes, landscapes, nudes, the artist does not close any door. The technical mastery, the interpretation of materials, the precision of the gesture and the search for an aesthetic of bodies, shapes and colors are at the center of his artistic approach. Rigor and keen insight are skills developed in particular by his initial training as an architect. His sensitivity to drawing and a fundamental aspect of his art. The quality of the line is remarkable, it is part of the painter/architect's signature. The sketch becomes almost automatic writing. It is a starting point, a base port that allows you to unfold your story on the canvas. The artist summons his memories, his experience of places, landscapes, bodies... Architecture naturally occupies a prominent place in his works. It must be interpreted as a living space, a playing field, a human presence as dotted. The artist's talent is also expressed in his ability to tell us a story and embark with him in his intimacy. The choice of the figurative is not trivial, it offers us reassuring milestones, paths of identification so little traveled by current contemporary creation and its cult of abstraction. The artist lays the foundations, builds a set, an atmosphere and lets us imagine the rest. Objects take on a new dimension under his strokes. They become contemporary totems. An empty chair, a pair of shoes are enough to materialize the ghostly presence of a man and a woman who almost hear each other behind the canvas. Everyday music infiltrates the compositions as a sometimes nostalgic, sensual and catchy melody. A female model regularly returns in his paintings. Is she a muse? The vestal guardian of the artist's inner fire? Alain Rouschmeyer paints with the hands of the creator, the gaze of the poet and the heart sharpened by the beauty that surrounds us. He explores and reinterprets classic themes of art such as the representation of the bather so loved by the Impressionists or the chair, a cult object of the avant-garde. Nothing is left to chance in his paintings. The apparent spontaneity of the composition is the result of careful observation and aesthetic research. The artist moves us with his sensitivity and his poetic approach to the world around him. His painting is generous, deeply nourished. His art is an invitation to “carpe diem”.