Sans Titre Gabriel Riesnert

Sans Titre Gabriel Riesnert
In this composition, the artist sets up a tension between two spaces: the vastness of a lake landscape bathed in diffuse light, and the hushed interior of an almost minimalist living room. The panoramic window acts as both a boundary and a screen: it frames the outside landscape, transforming it into a painting within the painting.

In the foreground, the boldly colored furniture — a pink armchair and a violet sofa — bring a touch of domestic warmth, yet their stillness heightens the silence of the scene.

It is precisely within this calm that a seemingly insignificant detail emerges: the small white (Untitled) book resting on the table in the lower left corner. A discreet object, yet central in its symbolic weight, it becomes a silent counterpoint to the vastness of the landscape. Its matte whiteness catches the eye as strongly as the chromatic masses of the décor.

The book acts as an invitation to the viewer: it marks the absence of a figure who might have opened it, abandoned it, left it in suspension.
Thus, this tiny detail transforms the painting: it grants the landscape a narrative role, humanizes the emptiness, and inscribes the work within a temporality — that of a pause, a waiting, or a suspended moment.

Born in 1970, Gabriel Riesnert lives and works in Paris and south of France.

Since his early age Gabriel Riesnert has been fascinated by the beauty of plant forms and urban architectural lines. His passion pushes him to a practice of painting and drawing between photographic inspiration and urban realism. The artist’s consideration of painting is essentially turned to a representation of what we see and perceive of these forms, whether they provide a fiction or an impression of beauty, of serenity.

Beyond the visual, the creation of a work for Gabriel Riesnert is an interpretive experience and a journey intimately linked to space and time. His paintings often represent spaces and forms that are inspired by the tradition of the natural and architectural landscape. By enlarging details and creating a play of colors and shadows, the painter draws up a quest for the possible and a virgin path in the viewer’s eye.

Sans Titre Gabriel Riesnert

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