GUIDED TOUR OF "PORTRAITS IMAGINAIRES"

Curator Valerio Dehò offers a guided tour of the exhibition to discover Henri Beaufour's artistic approach.

"Henri Beaufour’s artistic work has focused primarily on the study of the human face - of the portrait - in the classical sense of the expression of individuality, characteristics, and the differences between individuals. For this French artist, though, it is not merely a matter of focusing on descriptions of realistic persons; instead, he works on creating something situated halfway between imagination and effective reality.

In his capacity as a sculptor, painter, or engraver, Beaufour never adheres entirely to reality; rather, he creates intuitively in the moment and, above all, according to his profound erudition in the humanities and literature. While his work can be defined as a ‘journey to the end of matter’, it is also true that his explorations of human psychology oen reveal literary resonances, in which the characters belong to a story
suspended between the truth of reason and the immensity of fantasy."

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