Debré 1990: the potential paintings

1 parvis Jean Germain, 37000 Tours, France

Today the art centre wishes to explore these works created on the Loire banks by recontextualising them more broadly among other elements created in the same period (1990-1995), but with very different proportions. For while one might readily know Olivier Debré for the gigantism of his formats, one soon forgets that he was also an indefatigable explorer probing the possibilities of his gestural language within very small compositions. For example think of the stamp (3.6 x 4.8 cm), commissioned by the Ministry of Posts in 1992 and published in 1993, or enc…