“If the inspiration comes from cinema, Jérôme François approach is in return totally devoted to painting. Everything is dedicated to it, everything brings us back to his fundamental questioning and every iconographic excursion in his work leads back to it. Be it a question of screen, focal or mise en abîme, of narration, freeze-frame or abstract composition, we find ourselves face to face with a piece of research which aims to proclaim the perpetuity of a mode. Be it that he borrows his motifs from the seventh art, makes use of the projection mode to reproduce them, frames them as seen from the projectionist’s box, Jérôme François has one aim only : to render painting onto painting (...) The influences here are diverse. In matters of recovery, Jérome François art owes as much to the ready-made style of Marcel Duchamp as it does to the example of Nouveau Réalisme ; as for the way he manipulates the images, he owes as much to Pop Art’s fragmentation technique as he does to the syncopated technique of an artist like David Salle ; where style is concerned, he owes to the experience of a work such as that of Richter."
Philippe Piguet Jérôme François, destination peinture, Arthotèque de Caen
