Frederic Duquet is a French artist born in 1965. It is his uncle, an artist, who will transmit him this taste for art. His design studies at the Ecole des Mines did not divert him from his love for painting, which became his outlet. He continued his practice discreetly in parallel with his professional career in industry. When discovering the artist and his paintings, the words of Oscar Wilde make perfect sense to the Charron gallery:

“Art is always more abstract than we imagine. Form and colour speak to us of form and colour, that is all. It often seems to me that the artworks hides the artist much more than it reveals him.” Oscar Wilde

His inspiration comes from his life spent between Cologne, Basel and Brussels and his frequent visits to galleries and museums of modern and contemporary art. His artworks can be compared to the work of Rothko, De Kooning or Rauschenberg. Between colourist and abstract expressionist, Duquet proposes a superposition of forms and colours, his work is devoid of any form of figurative representation, which leaves our own imagination free to read and interpret his ARTWORKS. An assembly of squares and rectangles that pile up like a construction set for children, with great stability.