The unreservedly Raynaud and the knightly Combas

On the one hand, Robert Combas, born in 1957, influenced by folk art, Pop art, comics, rock and advertising. Right from the start of his career, he broke away from the conceptual movements of the 1970s to return to a real, insolent, impulsive, combative painting, almost expressionist and full of critical humor.

On the other hand, Jean Pierre Raynaud, born in 1939, has been obsessively using motifs and objects linked to his own history since the early 1960s, reappropriating them and giving them a formal value, while intervening slightly to give them their full meaning. For example, 15cm square white ceramic tiles with black grout covering sculptures, shipping containers and architecture; stainless steel medical containers filled with the rubble from a house that was completely tiled and then destroyed; Psycho-object flowerpots of all sizes filled with cement and painted in bright colors; or no-entry traffic signs.

By choosing to display these two artists in resonance, Strouk Gallery - over and above a search for correspondences or discordances between their highly singular works - allows us to observe the repercussions of one sensibility on another, and vice versa.

This unique exhibition, with its historical and museum qualities, confirms the gallery's strong commitment and support for these two artists, year after year.