Julien Heintz, born in 1997, is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studio of James Rielly. With oil painting being his favorite technique, he seeks the ambiguity between abstraction and figuration. The preparation of the canvas is of particular importance to him. The surface is approached as a unique material which he prepares with a gesso made from a mixture of marble powder, skin glue and water. This preparation, then sanded, gives the canvas a smooth, hard and porous appearance, almost as thin as a sheet of paper, making it a unique and fragile object. It is this fragility that pushes him to understand the surface on which he paints in a unique way, to memorize its faults and qualities.
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