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The painting sometimes has discreet, almost silent charms, playing with the simplicity and the emotion of the landscapes. It is the case in Jean-Marc RIVES's work, that it is the alley of a Provençal village, the Breton coast or a fragment of the island of beauty, it is the peace which reigns there, everything is treated in worn-out tones, in filtered nuances. I imagine myself very well Jean-Marc RIVES crossing the landscapes in search of a certain osmosis, in the discovery of a landscape of soul before settling down to crunch it and resume it in workshop, or still seize it directly on the motive, everything qualifies it, as we write a poem.
Jean-Marc RIVES is a regular visitor to the personal exhibitions and to the shows any azimuth where a lot of his works were noticed and outdone, what also allowed him to get on with one of the major figures of the figurative art TOFFOLI. In a world where reigns violence and crash, blindness and doggedness, pride and power, money and speculation, Jean-Marc RIVES's pictorial space offers us a haven of peace, a palette of silence and a melody in the colors of the close friend.
Michel BENARD
Art Critic
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