Gael’s background is quite unusual, tight with a strong feeling of freedom. He started as a Linguistics Teacher at Paris Sorbonne University. Afterwards, he developed the Cultural Relationship between France and Asia as Director of Alliance Française in Dalian (NE China) and in West of India in Ahmedabad but also as the President of Artist Association Acadart working with Artists both Asian and French. His painting goes through 4 philosophical styles: Purity, Complexity, Colors, Smog respectively linked to the Taoïsm, Confucianism, Buddhism and Materialism. He also developed an original “Calligraphism” which mix inspirations of different sources of calligraphy adapted to his own poems.

Imagine what you would see in yourself if you could travel through your body and look at yourself. What would you say to yourself…?

So when you reinterpret yourself to doubt the so-called real and inherent works, you can let your imagination extend to some new things… In the past few years, I have consistently experimented with handmade rice paper and various materials to combine the humanistic spirit and nature that I can recognize, to explore imaginary schemas beyond visual experience and dusty things that transcend nature. Perhaps these experimental works of mine are faced with works of art that we have never seen or thought of, and must be observed, thought and interpreted through their own fundamental nature…

With exhibitions all across Asia and Europe, Gael compare his painting to a linguistical approach of art like a language to communicate with different people. Technically, Gaël de Kerguenec has explored ink and watercolor dilution and brush manipulation with very unique technics which makes some painting impossible to reproduce by hand. For example, some paintings have been painted with natural wind and rain outdoor during storms, some needs mixture of water and different elements, with unique proportion every time. Philosophically, his walks through an evolution that reflect the evolution of nature and humanity: “Purity” for the individual balance between Yin and Yang, black ink and transparent water “Complexity Styles” for inter-human relationships is a mix of many Yin Yang interacting “Colors” for supernatural beliefs, religion and unexplained facts “Smog” for materialism and consumption society, with a deep fog occulting shapes and colors His paintings are signed by his given name “Gaël” or Chinese given name “KeKaiLe” associated with the Chinese seal “LE“ (happiness) which is the last character of Gael de Kerguenec’s Chinese name and the wax seal representing the heraldic armorial of his aristocratic family representing a pigeon associated with two moon crescents symbolizing travelling and crusades which involved his ancestor one thousand years ago.