Yves Clerc

Yves Clerc began his career in drawing and photography, before turning to painting and abstraction, followed by figuration. He offers us a poetic vision of the world, where shimmering colours rub shoulders with flat blacks. Yves Clerc's aim is not to tell, but to show. Transparency and its staging are his favourite themes.

His works often depict portraits of women, their eyes masked and their expression neutral, to let the whole composition express itself. Yves Clerc loves texture and plays with boundaries: he paints long, crumpled draperies that he creates with a juxtaposition of layers of paint, but also of techniques - oil on canvas, acrylic, drawing, painting on photo.

The artist also attaches great importance to resonances between works. He has thus reworked some great paintings in his own way, such as Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring, and collaborates with personalities from other artistic backgrounds, such as Irina Vitjaz (a renowned Moscow stylist) and Leila Menchar (set designer for Hermes). Yves Clerc mainly exhibits at the Bailly Gallery in Geneva, but his work is also regularly shown in many other cities all over the world, such as Paris, Mexico City, Moscow, Geneva, London, Brussels, Lisbon, New York and Miami.